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DAY THOUGHTS 



ON THE 



NEW TESTAMENT 



OF 



OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. 



BRIEF NOTES AND INSTRUCTIONS, 



ALSO LINKING TOGETHER, INTO A CHAIN OF TRUTHS, 

OLD TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES WITH THE NEW, 

AND GOD'S BOOK OF NATURE. 



BY 

R. TENNENT SHAW. 



To the Law and to the Testimony: if they speak not according to this Word, 
it is because there is no light in them. — Isaiah viii. 20. 



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Jesus said, I thank thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, 
because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and 
hast revealed them unto babes. Even so Father ; for so it seemed 
good in thy sight; Matt. xi. 25, 26. 1 Cor. i. 18 : For the preach- 
ing of the cross is to them that perish foolishness ; but unto us 
which are saved it is the power of God. To worship a dead 
blood life body, a cross, or an image of a dead Christ, is not only 
foolishness, but mockery of Christ. Spirit born of the soul mind 
alone have an experimental knowledge of the glorious love and 
peace happiness, wisdom of God, and power. For it is written, 
Isa. xxix. 14. The wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and 
the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid. 1 Cor. i. 
20: Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the dis- 
puter of this world (with sectarian spirit Babel towers ; but in vain 
they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of 
men : Matt. xv. 9). Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of 
this world (which grasps after dead bodies to resurrect, instead of 
a spirit born living new creature in Christ, 2 Cor. v. 17)? 21: 
For after (the spirit birth of the soul mind life immortal wisdom 
of God) the world by (collegiate) wisdom knew not God. 27 : But 
God hath chosen (apparent to unspirit born, John iii. 5) the fool- 
ish things of the world to confound the wise (in their own con- 
ceit, Prov. xxvi. 12 ; and ignorance of spirit birth life love peace 
joys, wisdom) ; and things which are not (until spirit born), to 
bring to naught (blood life bodies, and souls) things that are : (29) 
That no flesh should glory in his presence. David with a smooth 
stone out of the brook slew Goliath the Philistine giant of Gath. 
And the Lord said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee 
are too many . . . lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, 
mine own hand hath saved me: as do bishops, D.D.'s, popes, 
etc., who claim they by baptizing with water remit sins. But the 

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4 iA T TR OD UCTION. 

Scriptures give all glory to God, where it all belongs in Christ's 
sacrificial offerings. John i. 7 : But if we walk in (love) light, as 
he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the 
blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin : when 
spirit begotten and born of God, v. 18. No pope, cardinal, bishop, 
D.D., or any other man official, by water baptism cleanseth any 
mortal from sin that is of Eden's beguiling serpent man glory. 
John baptized with water unto repentance. Matt. iii. 11 : Christ 
shall baptize you (spirit born) with the Holy Ghost and with fire. 

Ps. ex. 4 : The Lord hath sworn and will not repent, thou art 
a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. Heb. vii. 2.1—28 : 
For the (mosaic) law maketh men high priests which have in- 
firmity ; but the word of the oath , which was since the law, 
maketh the Son, who is consecrated forever more. Those high 
priests of the law were made without an oath. Popes, cardinals, 
bishops, and other church officials that are sworn, are plainly false 
antichrist mockers of Christ, and show by their acts their desire 
to break the oath of the Lord, and substitute themselves in the 
place of Christ. And Peter for their chief corner-stone rock, of 
their spirit Babel men creed churches. Deut. xxxii. 31 : For their 
rock is not as our rock, even our enemies themselves being judges. 
Ps. xxviii. 1 : Unto thee will I cry, Lord, my rock. Ps. lxxxix. 
26 : Thou art my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation. 
1 Cor. x. 4 : For they drank of that spiritual rock that followed 
them ; and that rock was Christ. There could be no other priest- 
hood, since the Saviour alone is the priest, and he has no suc- 
cessors. Thus clearly showing that God's spirit children are 
placed on a level. 

Adam's blood life, or soul, are nowhere in the Scriptures taught 
to be immortal. And no child of God, spirit born of the her soul 
mind, is in any way whatever dependent upon Adam's soul life 
being. The child of God spirit born, John iii. 5, is of seed 
sown in the soul mind by Christ's love, Matt. xiii. 37, 38. Christ 
is the resurrection of, and the life of those resurrected : who have 
no alliance whatever with Adam's life, being all spirit born new 
creatures in Christ (not Adam's seed, as falsely taught), 2 Cor. v. 
17 ; Gal. vi. 7, 8, 15. 

The Scripture's spiritual truths all bear the one language of 
childlike love humility and faith which worketh by love in all 
their requests. Jesus said, Except ye be converted, and become 
(by spirit birth, John iii. 5) as little children (of God), ye shall 



INTRODUCTION. 5 

not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Matt, xviii. 3-10 : If 
thine eye, thy hand, or thy foot offend thee, pluck out the eye 
that offends thee (not God, or any of his laws, or any other 
person) ; cut off thy hand or thy foot that offeuds thee, nobody 
else, and cast them from thee. (A man in England last year had, 
when found, nearly severed his offensive right hand, and nearly 
plucked out his right eye.) It is better for thee to enter into life 
halt or maimed, rather than having two hands, or two feet, to be 
cast into everlasting fire ; rather than having two eyes to be cast 
into hell fire (v. 22). Whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be 
in danger of hell fire. What sane man or woman would wish 
that Scripture to mean a place of endless fire torment ? Because a 
man or woman's eye, hand or foot had offended themselves, no- 
body else is stated : as quick would they infer heaven was a place 
fitted up for one-eyed and one-hand and one-footed citizens ; and 
what infinite horrid demoniac injustice, to put a poor mortal into 
endless hell fire and brimstone torture, because they had not 
maimed their own body, that had only offended themselves ; or, for 
calling a brother a fool, to be punished eternally beyond the 
grave. Hell fire danger is clearly a danger of incurring the anger 
of the brother he called a fool, and perhaps a beastly fight of the 
fists into each other's eyes and angry kicks of the feet, being in- 
toxicated and insane with hell fire anger, that consumes love and 
heavenly peace, and, unrepented of, would exclude them from 
heaven's land of love, where no anger hell fire hatred can enter. 
False creeds of men are the blunders that from childhood form 
the blind mortal's belief habits and second nature, and men creeds 
and men popes, and lawyer priests, who plead for their men com- 
mandments creeds for a salary, and the poor hard-working church 
member is of no account unless he takes his hard toil earned 
money, and gives it to the creed preachers, who to-day like the 
horse-leech cry, Money, money. Christ says, Follow me : humble 
shepherd, feed my sheep, not fleece my sheep. Salvation Christ 
placed as the grass upon the ground, and the living waters, and 
the sunlight, his free grace love message from the Father of all 
spirit born that live beyond time's close. Easy of access to all 
who humble themselves as a little child and in secret, and in public 
seek God through Christ the spirit medium mediator for spirit 
life immortal, love to God supreme, and to thy neighbor as to 
thyself. It is a matter of life and death of blood life, and soul 
life, between thee and thy Creator by way of Adamic blood life, 



6 INTRODUCTION. 

and new creature spirit birth life obtainable only of God, through 
Christ. Preachers for soul life's spirit birth, like doctors for the 
blood life body, are but poor helps. None but spirit born of Gcd 
of Adam's race, by way of the soul mind, partake of immortality 
beyond earth's fire flood, that only requires the word of the 
Judge of all the earth, to burst forth its ocean of molten lava 
pent up in earth's centre, save volcanic eruptions, and consume 
the earth, 2 Pet. iii. 10. The claim of apostolic succession is a 
false serpent beguiling fraud upon the people of earth. Authentic 
history clearly shows that there is not a church on earth that has 
any truthful claim to apostolic succession ; and if they had. it 
would be of no possible value here or hereafter. It is Christ's 
blood that cleanseth from all sin ; not water baptism. Christ sows 
the good seed. It is a matter between Christ and the seeker for 
immortal life ; not between thee and thy fellow-man. Though he 
clothes himself with a triplicate crown, he is a poor perishable pope 
rebel against God, sentenced to death, as well as all Adam's race. 
John iii. 5 gives the brief ultimatum : Except a man have spirit 
birth, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. If spirit born, 
a new creature in Christ who is its resurrection and life, wholly 
disconnected from Adam's sin lust blood life : as the dragon fly, 
and the mud grub, dead and perished. There is no Scripture that 
justifies the office of pope, cardinal, D.D., etc. Christ flatly for- 
bids all such titles in his church. Matt, xxiii. 8 : But be not ye 
called rabbi ; for one is your Master, even Christ (no other) ; 
and all ye (spirit born holy) are brethren. 9 : And call no man 
your father upon the earth : for one is your Father which is in 
heaven: 10, 12. 

The spirit of the Lord God is upon me ; because the Lord hath 
anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek ; he hath sent 
me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the cap- 
tives, and opening the prison to them that are bound (by false 
creed pledges). And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And 
let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst 
come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely 
(Rev. xxii. 17). 



DAY THOUGHTS. 



ETERNITY PAST O, O ETERNITY TO COME. 

Creations of eternity past had no beginning time ; the Supreme 
Sovereign of the universe of boundless lighted space, being a self- 
existent Spirit, Grod of eternity past, and eternity to come ; endless ; 
who only hath self-existent immortal life ; whom no mortal man 
hath seen, nor can see, nor comprehend even in his infinite minutiae 
of life, and power ways, or attributes infinite ; to whom be honor 
and power endless, amen ; and who dwells in his endless towering 
spirit heavens of eternal beatific glory, and is the supreme bound- 
less inexhaustible ocean of spirit life's immortal light ; and the 
Father of all spirit life immortal (Heb. xii. 9 ; John iv. 24). 

Each round sun and world are eternity emblems. The spirit 
self-existent Father of spirits immortal in life hath revealed 
through his spirit word creation power Son, the Lord God, his 
spirit word creation powers to create suns, and systems of innu- 
merable revolving worlds, that obedient to his command swiftly 
fly around them, in the created heaven and the earth ; infinite 
power, wisdom, knowledge, and omnipotence to create and sustain 
probation suns and systems of ponderous worlds ; and hath re- 
vealed his infinite goodness, justice, love and mercy that endureth 
forever, and salvation power to redeem all who comply with his 
grace covenant faith conditions of spirit-birth holiness, brought to 
light in the scripture gospel by his spirit-begotten Son of love, 
Messiah Immanuel Lord Jesus Christ, his messenger and fulfiller 
of his law, by his messenger Moses, and his prophets. 



time s parenthesis not eternal, but with a beginning. 

In the beginning Grod created the heaven and the earth. When 
was that beginning commenced between eternity past and eternity 



8 DAY THOUGHTS. 

to come (time s parenthesis) ? Six thousand years ago, say some 
bishops and orthodox" preachers, and some geologists, and many 
others ; I say, the beginning might have been six billion ages ago; 
the time is not stated when the beginning of created worlds began, 
including the earth, when the Spirit of God moved upon the face of 
the waters. The mists chaotic darkness boundless deep, now occupied 
by suns and systems of worlds, formed by the spirit self-existent im- 
mortal Father of spirits, word Son of creation power, who said, Let 
there be light, and there was light, which he condensed into vast 
oceans of light suns. 

And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the 
waters ; let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto 
one place, and let the dry land appear earth, and the waters seas. 

And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yield- 
ing seed, and the fruit-tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed 
is in itself. 

And God said, Let the waters (then purified by God's word 
light) bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, 
and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of 
heaven ; and God created great whales and every living creature 
that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly after their 
kind (not Darwin progression) ; and God saw that it was good. 
The large fish did not then prey on the little ones ; all was peace, 
no war of races, each had an abundant supply of food no doubt 
provided by their Creator. God had made Adam in his image 
as ruler over the earth life, as he was ruler over the universe 
and all life ; and as having his quickening to life seed-power, 
as in all males of every species, and in vegetation, life after his 
kind. Adam's fall, and obedience to Satan's viper messenger of 
beguiling false creed, Ye shall not surely die, ye shall be as gods 
immortal. The same ambition for exaltation that no doubt caused 
Satan to fall from his exalted probation state caused Adam and 
Eve to sell their image of God birthright for, not a mess of pottage, 
but stolen lust producing sin fruit. 

Thus the devil, by Adam and Eve's obedience to his commands 
by his serpent messenger, became slaves ; and Satan became the 
prince and power of darkness, ruler over earth life, and murderer 
of Abel by Cain, the first seed of sin lust, and wars of Adam's 
race on each other. 

And beasts became like Adam's race, ravenous, and preyed on 
the defenseless helpless creatures of life ; and fish under Satan's, 



DAY THOUGHTS. 9 

prince of darkness, rule warred and devour each other, especially 
the large and powerful prey on the weak and helpless. Thus Adam 
and Eve to become Satanic myth beguiling gods, to know evil, 
previously knowing only good. All life under Adam's adminis- 
tration became also slaves to Satan's evil power death : war, strife, 
and all their attendant miseries of malignant diseases, pains and 
sorrows. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and tra- 
vaileth in pain together until now (Rom. viii. 22). 

And God's sunlight life quickening word continued, as now, to 
shine through earth's atmosphere, contaminated by the unclean 
prince of darkness and power of the air (Eph. ii. 2). And his 
unclean angel spirits and tare seed children, slave descendants of 
Adam and Eve, in sin lust thoughts evil continually. 

Gen. vi. 7 : Then God destroyed all Adam's sin lust seed, save 
Noah and his family on the earth. Still Satan, the prince of dark- 
ness evil, continues his probation, and will until time's earth fire 
flood, when the devil and his unclean spirit seed will be destroyed, 
annihilated (Matt. xiii. 38-40 ; Heb. ii. 14). 

Now the sun shines through the sin unclean atmosphere, con- 
taminated by Satan's unclean hosts; still he is the prince of darkness 
impurity and war-power of the air; and the impure stagnant waters 
of earth under the warming rays of the summer sun produces 
living, moving, unclean, ravenous war, water devils that devour the 
smaller animalculse seen through the microscope in innumerable 
numbers ; the musquitos also that fly from stagnant waters in 
armies of thousands, as they mature under the warm sun's rays of 
life quickening power ; and they make war at night under the 
banner of the prince of darkness, upon the living creatures of 
earth, and upon mortals they bravely charge at night, and seek for 
their heart's blood of life, as doth their prince of war darkness 
king, Satan, by beguiling the mortal race of Adam, by hallucinating 
false mirages of ambition in earth's wars of mortals upon each 
other, on hell fire and brimstone battlefields, and iron and lead 
hail storms, and cannon thunders of hell fire and brimstone light- 
ning flashes, and bombshell scorpion serpent messengers of death. 

Ps. cxix. 165 : Great peace have they which love thy law, and 
nothing shall offend them. 

Gal. vi. 7, 8, 15 ; v. 6 : Be not deceived ; God is not mocked. 
He is not a resurrector of dead corruption bodies, to torture ad 
infinitum. For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. 
For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption ; 

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but lie that sowetli to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life ever- 
lasting. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any- 
thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. Faith which work- 
eth by love. 

Rom. vi. 23 : For the wages of sin is death. But the gift of 
God is eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord. 

Matt. xiii. 37, 38 ; John iii. 5 : Jesus said unto his disciples, 
He that soweth the good seed is the Son of Man. The field is 
the world ; the good seed are the children of the kingdom (of 
God) ; but the tares are the children of the wicked one (the devil). 
Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter 
into the kingdom of God. 

Rom. viii. 8 : So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. 
But ye (spirit born, holy) are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if 
so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have 
not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. 

1 Cor. xv. 22, 23 : For as in Adam all die (all Adam's sin-lust 
seed dies), even so all in Christ shall be made alive ; but every 
man in his own order ; Christ the first fruits, afterwards they that 
are Christ's (have his Spirit, Rom. viii. 9, no others), at his 
coming. 

1 Cor. ii. 14 : The natural man receiveth not the things of the 
Spirit of God ; for they are foolishness (incomprehensible while 
unspirit-born) unto him ; neither can he know them, because they 
are spiritually discerned. 

Gen. ii. 7 ; 1 Cor. xv. 44-50 : And the Lord God formed 
man of (nature's earthly matter) the dust of the ground, and 
breathed into his nostrils the breath of lives. (Job xii. 10 : In 
the Lord's hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath 
of all mankind.) 

Gen. iii. 17 : The Lord God commanded Adam not to eat of the 
tree of the knowledge of good and evil ; for in the day that thou 
eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. (Nothing reserved.) 

Gen. iii. 4 : And the serpent (Satan's messenger of lies) said 
unto the woman (Eve), Ye shall not surely die. (Nothing reserved.) 
All who preach the immortality of the wicked agree with Satan. 

2 Tim. vi. 16 : God only hath immortality, dwelling in the light 
which no man can approach unto ; whom no man hath seen nor 
can see. 

Gen. iii. 15 : And woman's seed shall bruise thy (the serpent 
devil's death power) head. 



DAY THOUGHTS. 11 

Hcb. ii. 14 : To destroy him that had the power of death, that 
is the devil. 

Matt. xiii. 38-42 : The tares are the children of the wicked one; 
the enemy that sowed them is the devil. 

As therefore the tares (a foul weed gathered and burned in that 
country) are gathered and burned in the fire, so shall it be in the 
end of this world. 

Gen. iii. 17 : Cursed is the ground for Adam's sin ; in sorrow 
shalt thou eat of it, all the days of thy life. 19 : In the sweat 
of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until thou return unto the ground ; 
for out of it thou wast taken ; for dust thou art, and unto dust 
shalt thou return. 22 : And the Lord God said, Lest Adam put 
forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life (immortal spiritual), 
and eat and live forever. 24 : So God drove out the man (God's 
infinite love, goodness, mercy, and justice prevented mortals from 
partaking of immortal life, while unrepentant and unspirit-born 
new creatures in Christ, the promised Messiah, soul-mind Re- 
deemer : in a state of Adamic nature sin-life of sorrow and misery). 
So he drove out (from Eden Adam and Eve) the man, and placed 
at the east of the garden of Eden cherubim (angel of power), and 
a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the 
tree of life, and prevented Adam and Eve's sin-lust race (Ps. Ii. 5) 
from prolongation of nature's sin-life beyond the grave ; in un- 
spirit-born spirit-life of the soul-mind, through belief of God's 
truth. 

Heb. xii. 23 : Spirits of just men made perfect. 24 : And 
Jesus the mediator of the new covenant. 

Matt. xxii. 37-40 : Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord 
thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy 
mind. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two 
commandments hang all the law and the prophets. 

Gal. v. 16, 17, 25 : Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill 
the lusts of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and 
the Spirit against the flesh. And these are contrary the one to 
the other. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. 

John iv. 24 ; iii. 5, 6 : God is a Spirit, and they that worship 
him must worship him in spirit and in truth. 

Matt. xiii. 23, 30 ; v. 7, 11 : He that received seed into the 
good ground (the soul-mind, through faith which worketh by love; 
will-door of the mind, belief of God's truth) is he that heareth 
the word, and understf,ndeth it ; which also beareth fruit, and 



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bringetli forth, some a hundred fold, some sixty, some thirty. Let 
both (wheat righteous and tare sinners) grow together until the 
harvest ; and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather 
ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them 
(That I may consume them in a moment : Numb. xvi. 21 ; 
Deut. iv. 24). But gather the wheat (righteous) into my barn 
(heaven). Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. 
Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit (spirit love-life), 
immortal seed sown by Christ Jesus in the her soul-mind, spirit- 
egg, intellect (Ps. xxxiv. 2 : My soul shall make her boast in the 
Lord), and believed unto conception of God's spirit-love life-light 
immortal. 

1 Tim. vi. 16 : God only hath immortality, and is the Father 
of all spirit-life immortal. 

Heb. xii. 9 : His spirit-children are spirit-born of God (1 John 
v. 18), by spirit-love of God in Christ the medium, or spirit-doves 
brooding of the Holy Ghost (Christ Jesus, Luke xxiii. 46), and 
abiding in God's love in Christ. 

1 John iv. 16 : God is love ; and he that dwelleth in love dwell- 
eth in God, and God in him (born of the Spirit) ; or, he cannot 
enter into the (spirit) kingdom of God. 

2 Cor. v. 17 : Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new 
creature. 

John iii. 6 : That which is born of the flesh is flesh ; and that 
which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 16 : For God so loved the 
world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth 
in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 18 : He that 
believeth on him is not condemned : but he that believeth not is 
condemned already. 19 : Men loved darkness rather than light, 
because their deeds were evil. 

Bom. viii. 6, 8-10 : To be carnally minded is death ; but to be 
spiritually minded is life and peace. They that are in the flesh 
cannot please God. But ye (spirit-born holy children of God, 1 
John iii. 10) are not in the flesh but in the spirit, if so be that 
the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now, if any man have not the Spirit 
of Christ, he is none of his. And, if Christ be in you, the body is 
dead, because of sins (sentenced to death irrevocable : Gen. iii. 
19: Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return); but the 
spirit is life, because of righteousness (spirit-birth). 

1 John i. 7 : If we walk in the light, as Christ is in the light, 
we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus 



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Christ God's Son cleanseth us (who are spirit-born, holy) from all 
sin. 

Lev. xvii. 11 : For the life of the flesh is in the blood ; and I 
have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your 
souls. Not bodies' blood life, sentenced to death (Gen. iii. 19). 
For it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul. 

1 John iii. 1, 9, 10 ; iv. 16 ; v. 18 : Behold what love the 
Father (of spirits immortal : Heb. xii. 9) hath bestowed upon us 
(spirit born of the (her) soul mind), that we should be called the 
sons of God. Whosoever is born (spirit birth of the soul's spirit- 
egg mind) of God (promise word conditional covenant of faith, 
which worketh by love of God, sown by Christ) doth not commit 
sin ; for his seed (spirit love) remaineth in him ; and he cannot 
sin, because he is born of God. In this the children of God are 
manifest, and the children of the devil : whosoever doeth not right- 
eousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother. 
God is love : and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and 
God in him. We (spirit born) know that whosoever is born of 
God sinneth not ; but he that is begotten of God keepeth him- 
self, and the wicked one (the devil, tare seed sower) toucheth him 
not. 

2 Sam. xxiv. 14 : David said, Let us fall now into the hand of 
the Lord, for his mercies are great ; and let me not fall into the 
hand of man. 

Heb. xii. 9 : Furthermore, we have had fathers of our flesh 
which corrected us, and we gave them reverence : shall we not 
much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live ? 

Eph. ii. 1, 3, 4, 5, 8 : And you hath Christ quickened, who 
were dead in trespasses and sins ; and were by nature the children 
of wrath, even as others. But God, who is rich in mercy, even 
when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us (spirit-born holy), 
together with Christ (Christ is resurrected from blood-life), so are 
all spirit-born new creatures in Christ. For by grace are ye saved, 
through faith, and that not of yourselves ; it is the gift of God. 

v. 14 : Wherefore he saith, Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise 
from the dead, and Christ will give thee light. 

John i. 12, 13 ; v. 24, 25, 40 ; xi. 25, 26 ; xv. 4, 5, 6 : As 
many as received Christ, to them gave he power to become the 
sons of God, even to them that believe on his name : which were 
born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of 
man, but of God. He that heareth Christ's word, and believeth 

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on God (the Father of all spirit-life immortal) that sent me, hath 
everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation ; but is 
passed from death unto life. The hour is coming, and now is, 
when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of &od : and they 
that hear shall live. And ye (incorrigibly wicked) will not come 
to me (Christ), that ye might have life. Jesus said, I am the 
resurrection, and the life : he that believeth in me, though he 
were dead, yet shall he live : And whosoever liveth (is spirit-born 
of God), and believeth in me, shall never die. (Then they are 
resurrected from the dead, spiritual life immortal is begun.) I 
(Christ) am the vine : Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch 
cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine : no more can 
ye, except ye abide in me. While they abide in the spirit-life love 
of Christ, and God, they cannot die : they are resurrected from 
spirit-death. God only hath immortality, dwelling in the light 
which no man can approach unto ; whom no man hath seen nor 
can see. 

The Spirit God (John iv. 24). 

Heb. xii. 9 : Shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the 
Father of spirits, and live ? 

1 John iii. 10 : Children of God are, like their Father, spirits 
(2 John iii. 2) : They only have immortality of all the race of Adam 
and Eve, when spirit born of God (1 John v. 18) ; they partake 
of his immortal love life. 

John iii. 5 : Except a man be born of the Spirit, he cannot enter 
into the (spirit) kingdom of God. 

John xi. 25, 26 : Jesus said unto her (Ps. xxxiv. 2 : My soul 
shall make her boast in the Lord ; the humble shall hear thereof, 
and be glad), I am the resurrection and the life (Adam's blood-life 
seed is all sentenced to death, and Satan and his tare seed crim- 
inals, at time's close, are sentenced to death, with earth's fire- 
flood destruction, the end of the world. Matt. xiii. 37-42 ; Heb. 
ii. 14 ; 1 Cor. xv. 26, 28.) He that believeth in me, though he 
were dead (Eph. ii. 1 : And you hath Christ quickened, who were 
dead in trespasses and sins), yet shall he live (no others of Adam's 
sin-lust race) ; and whosoever liveth (is spirit-born, love life holy) 
and believeth in me shall never die. Such are resurrected from 
spirit death by spirit-birth of the soul-mind (spirit-egg mind), 
quickened to spirit life. 

Luke xx. 35-38 (the second resurrection. The resurrection 
of the righteous from dead blood life bodies) : They which shall 



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be accounted worthy to obtain that (spirit-life everlasting) world, 
and (accounted worthy of) the resurrection from the dead (blood 
life body, at its death), neither marry nor are given in marriage. 
(Gal. iii. 26 : For ye are the children of God by faith in Christ 
Jesus.) 27 : For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ 
(1 John iv. 16 : Love) have put on Christ. 28: There is neither 
male nor female : for ye (spirit born holy) are all one in Christ 
Jesus. 29 : And if ye be Christ's (spirit birth, love life immortal), 
then are ye Abraham's seed (faith love covenant), and heirs accord- 
ing to the promise. Neither can they die any more, for they are 
equal to the angels, and are the children of God, being the children 
of the resurrection. (No wicked, nor dead bodies, are God's chil- 
dren.) 

Children of men, Adam and Eve's sin-lust begotten race (Ps. 
li. 5 : Behold, 1 was shapen in iniquity ; and in sin did my mother 
conceive me) are all sentenced to death. 

Gen. iii. 19 : Children of the devil, and the devil their father, 
are all sentenced to death (Matt. xiii. 38-40 ; Heb. ii. 14). 

1 Cor. xv. 26 : The last enemy (there can be none beyond the 
last) that shall be destroyed (annihilated) is death (Satan, Heb. 
ii. 14). 28 : And when all things shall be subdued unto God, then 
shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things 
under him, that God may be all in all (then in existence). I 
asked a prominent orthodox preacher for his views of the destruc- 
tion of death. He said, that when death was destroyed all life 
that ever lived on earth would then return to life ; then, said he, 
the dead bodies of all Adam and Eve's race will return to life, and 
thus be resurrected : I asked him if all life death held then re- 
turned to life'. He answered that he thus believed. I suggested 
that as he, and most of Adam's race, had eaten swine, fowls, beasts, 
fish, etc., his body would make a singular appearance, and the 
noises each mortal body would bear about would be very discord- 
ant : the pigs would squeal, the calves bleat, the roosters crow, the 
hens cackle, and the ducks quack, etc. And if the devil was alive 
after Christ's surrender to his spirit father of his mission, and God 
being all in all then in existence, he would have to be in the devil 
if alive. He answered me that he believed he would ; I then said, 
" Good-night. If you worship a god in the devil, I do not worship 
or recognize such a god as my God, for (1 John iv. 16) God is 
love : and he that dwelleth in love, dwelleth in God, and God in 
him ; not in the devil, who is the infinite essence of hatred." 



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Rom. viii. 9 : But ye (spirit-born holy, John iii. 5) are not 
in the flesh, but in the spirit, if so be the Spirit of God dwell in 
you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of 
his. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin ; 
but the spirit is life because of righteousness. None but the 
righteous are resurrected : Christ the first fruits, afterward they 
that are Christ's (have his Spirit, Rom. viii. 9). 

Phil. i. 10 : That I may know Christ and the power of his 
resurrection. 

1 Cor. xv. 37 : Thou sowest not that body that shall be. 44 : It 
is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. 46 : That 
was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural ; and 
afterward that which is spiritual. 47 : The first man (Adam) is 
of the earth, earthy : the second man is the Lord from heaven. 
48 : As is the earthy, such are they that are earthy : and as is 
the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. 49 : And as 
we have borne the image of the earthy (blood-life bodies), we shall 
also bear the image of the heavenly ( a spirit body). 50: Flesh 
and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God. Death ends mor- 
tals, with a her soul barren. 

Ps. xxxiv. 2 : My soul maketh her boast in the Lord (spirit 
life). 

All animate nature life is the product of eggs in the females of 
all the different species on earth : if they are developed and then 
quickened into life, they produce their species, and no other : if 
not quickened into life, they produce no life whatever : and more 
than nine-tenths of all the egg germs of life in each animate life 
species, including Adam and Eve's race of mortals, perish, and 
produce no life whatever, but pass back to nature elements as ex- 
crements : thus no mortal bodies of blood life have any base of 
immortality whatever. The soul is a she to produce, like the 
females of blood life producers. 

Ps. xxxiv. 2 : My soul maketh her boast in the Lord ; the 
humble hear thereof and are glad : who reap thereby spirit soul 
birth, when the Lord quickens the soul's spirit-egg mind into im- 
mortal spirit life being. 

Eph. ii. 1 : And you hath Christ the Lord quickened, who were 
dead in trespasses and sins. 

All spirit-egg soul minds not quickened into life immortal spirit 
being, by way of faith in God's gospel words of eternal truths, and 
opening of their souls' will-door of reception, belief in God's spirit 



DAY THOUGHTS. 17 

word truths, and letting the spirit life immortal light love of God 
shine into and illuminate their dark undeveloped embryo soul mind 
egg, such are in the same undeveloped lifeless state that a nature 
female fowl's egg is in without life-quickening male seed ; if the 
domestic hen sets on such eggs, they produce nothing but rottenness. 

Is. v. 24 : Therefore, as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the 
flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and 
their blossom shall go up as dust : because they have cast away the 
law of the Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the holy one of 
Israel. 

Obad. 16: So shall all the heathen drink continually; and 
they shall be as though they had not been. 

Mai. iii. 16 : Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to 
another ; and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of 
remembrance was written before him for them that feared (to dis- 
obey) the Lord, and that thought upon his name. 17 : And they 
shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up 
my jewels : and I will spare them as a man spareth his own son 
that serveth him. 18 : Then shall ye . . . discern between the 
righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God, and him 
that serveth him not. 

Mai. iv. 1 : For, behold, the day cometh that shall burn as an 
oven ; and all the proud, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble : 
and the day that cometh shall burn them up (with the earth's fire 
flood. Who are alive on earth then not spirit-born holy), saith the 
Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. 

Matt. iii. 12 : He will burn up the chaff (wicked). 

1 Cor. ii. 10: God hath revealed (the things prepared for them 
that love him) unto us by his Spirit (who are spirit-born children 
of God), for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea the deep things of 
God. 12 : Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but 
the spirit which is of God ; that we might know the things that 
are freely given to us of God. 13 : Which things also we speak, 
not in the words which man's wisdom teach eth, but which the 
Holy Ghost teacheth ; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 
14 : But the natural man unspirit-born, nature seed of Adam and 
Eve ; the blood life soul man. 

1 Cor. xv. 46 : Howbeit, that was not first which is spiritual, 
but that which is natural ; and afterward that which is spiritual. 
47 : The first man (Adam) is of the earth earthy ; the second 
man (spiritual soul mind birth new spirit creature, 2 Cor. v. 17), 

2* 



18 DAY THOUGHTS. 

is the Lord from heaven. 48 : And as is the earthy, such are 
they also that are earthy. The natural man receiveth not the things 
of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him ; neither 
can he (unspirit born of God's love life immortal spirit love seed, 
sown by Christ's word of God, in the soul spirit-egg mind, and 
thereby quickened into life. 

Matt. xiii. 37, 38; John iii. 5 (spirit born) ; vi. 63 : It is the 
Spirit that quickeneth ; the flesh (blood life sentenced to death, 
Gen. iii. 19), profiteth nothing; the words that I speak unto you 
they are spirit and they are life (spirit love, pulsating immortal 
life). 68 : Thou hast the words of eternal life (God's infinite 
word promise of immortal life, to those who comply with its con- 
ditions of faith which worketh by love, covenant of spirit birth), 
neither can he (the unspirit born nature man) know them, because 
they are spiritually discerned. 15 : But he that is spiritual (spirit 
born of the soul spirit mind egg germ) judgeth all things (nature 
and spirit life knowledge), yet he himself is judged of no man 
(the Lord is his judge, not man). 16 : For who knoweth the mind 
of the Lord, that he (D.D. or Pope, etc.) may instruct him ? But 
we spirit born holy (Rom. viii. 9) have the mind of Christ. God's 
children have the Spirit of God in Christ-spirit Love. 

Knowledge diffused corrects the mind, 
When spirit-born of God refined ; 
Philosophers of Greece and Rome, 
Our spirit-God was there unknown. 

By worldly wisdom none God find, 
None by nature are thus inclined ; 
The pure in heart find God is love, 
And they alone see God above. 

The history of Adam and Eve's race of mortal sin lust begotten 
beings since their rebellion against God's spiritual government laws 
in the garden of Eden, when we take a retrospective view of man- 
kind during past ages, presents a lamentable scene of intellectual 
darkness bordering on chaos ; instead of love, kindness, hospitality, 
sympathy, mercy, and goodness, and especially kindness to near 
kindred, supreme selfishness and love of self-approbation was mani- 
fest, and developed in the first child of Adam and Eve, showing 
how low they had fallen from that exalted state in which God 
created them, and pronounced them good (Gen. i. 31). And clearly 
showing that like begets its like. 



DAY THOUGHTS. 19 

Although in every age men have possessed all the mental facul- 
ties they now enjoy in a state of sin lust birth of woman's nature 
seed eggs, or ever will enjoy, unless their soul's spirit egg — mind, 
intellect — is impregnated with God's immortality, we in nature 
birth do not surpass all other animate life-germs ; our first earthly 
development is like all other animate earth life in the female ; its 
first development is an egg, which if unimpregnated with male 
milt, soon passes off in rottenness, it ends void of any life what- 
ever ; when the egg is of that class that matures when impreg- 
nated into the image of its progenitors before it comes to nature 
light of the sun, if laid or deposited as by fowls and fish, then 
if unimpregnated before it is laid by the fowls, it is the same as 
the other previously described eggs, although they spend ten times 
the necessary time to mature male impregnated eggs, yet no life 
whatever is matured ; break the shell and a resurrection of rotten- 
ness is all that it develops, to the light, wholly void of life. Thus 
we readily discover that without quickening male milt, contact 
with the female nature seed eggs of all earth's animate life 
creatures, no progeny can be obtained. 

Thus we have clearly foreshadowed that the her or she soul 
(Ps. xxxiv. 2) spirit egg mind is the same as the eggs of all ani- 
mate nature life, wholly void of immortal spirit life from God, who 
only hath immortality to impart to a spirit the soul egg mind. 

1 Tim. vi. 16: God only hath immortality, dwelling in the 
light which no man can approach unto : therefore the necessity of 
a mediator. 

2 Tim. i. 10 : Now made manifest by the appearing of our 
Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death (in the soul mind 
eggs of believers). 

Eph. ii. 1 : And you hath Christ quickened, who were dead in 
trespasses and sins, and hath brought life and immortality to light 
through the gospel : Christ sows the good seed in the soul minds 
of those who open their will door, and by faith that worketh by 
love believe his gospel truths, and obey his commands as com- 
mander-in-chief of all spirit born children of God's army : his chil- 
dren on earth. Therefore the necessity of a mediator, to bear to 
mortals the immortal spirit life quickening spirit love seed, which 
mediator was and is the Lord Jesus Christ, the spirit word crea- 
tion Lord God veiled infinite love, in the word of God promise in 
Eden. 

Gen. iii. 15 : The woman's seed (nature egg, quickened to life 



20 DAY THOUGHTS. 

by the word spirit life impregnation, which, development from the 
Virgin Mary is the only variation of God's fixed laws in regard 
to animate earth life propagation). 

How can the soul mind be a spirit egg ? you inquire. I answer, 
Matt. xiii. 37-38 : He that soweth the good seed (immortal spirit 
love life from the Spirit Father : his covenant word promise con- 
ditions being complied with) is the son of man, by way of woman's 
seed : and spirit love word power Son of God, thereby mediator, and 
in communication with God and mortals. The good seed are chil- 
dren of the kingdom of God. 

John iii. 5 : Except a man be born of water and the spirit, he 
cannot enter into the kingdom of God : immortal spirit life. 

John iv. 24 : God is a Spirit ; and they that worship him must 
worship him in spirit and in truth : Like begets its like, is God's 
law of the universe. 

1 John v. 18 : We know that whosoever is born of God sin- 
neth not ; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and the 
wicked one toucheth him not. 

God's sky-blue starry flag on high, 
Revolving systems round him fly. 
Through boundless lighted space they soar ; 
None ever reach light's ocean shore. 

Though o'er millions of miles I bound, 
Still endless space would me surround ; 
Light's boundless deep God only knows, 
Outside is darkness, death for foes. 

The fact that all animate life is the product of two, male and 
female, is positive proof that the soul spirit egg mind is the only 
possible place in the mortal being capable of receiving spirit love 
life immortal seed, into conceptions intellectual belief of God's truth 
in which spirit life immortal could be sown, and begotten of God 
into new creature life. 2 Cor. v. 17 : Gal. v. 6 ; vi. 7, 8, 15. 

Ps. xxxiv. 2 : My soul shall make her boast in the Lord ; the 
humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. 4 : I sought the Lord, and 
he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears. 7 : The angel of 
the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him, and deliver- 
eth them. 8 : taste and see that the Lord is good : blessed is the 
man that trusteth in him. 22 : The Lord redeemeth the soul of 
his servants : and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate. 



DAY THOUGHTS. 21 

What must be the expansion of the intellect of the new creature 
child of God when it leaves its body blood life shell, and as a 
heavenly spirit dove or angel soars to heavenly mansions prepared 
for them by the Lord ! John xiv. 2 ; Luke xx. 36. 

The natural inclination of men's minds, which the pages of 
history record, chiefly presents to our views the most revolting 
scenes of war: which proves the earth to be hell, a field of 
battle, with a war devil prince : rapine and devastation, as if 
the earth, had been created merely to serve as a theatre for 
mischief devil recreation, and its inhabitants for the purpose 
of dealing destruction and misery to all around them. Such, 
however, are the natural sequences of the reign of ignorance 
over the human mind in its fallen, sinful state : for the active 
powers of the mind intellect necessarily follow the dictates of his 
understanding, and when the intellectual faculties are not directed 
to the pursuit and the contemplation of noble and benevolent ob- 
jects, they will most frequently be employed in designing and exe- 
cuting schemes subversive of human happiness and improvement. 
Amid the din of wars, the burning of cities, the desolation of prov- 
inces, the convulsion of nations, the ruin of empires, and the 
slaughter of millions, the voice of reason, the cries of orphans, the 
widow's sorrows and tears, the sorrow-pangs of bereaved parents, 
and brothers, and sisters, and other kindred and friends of the slain : 
the horrid agonies and hell-fire tortures inflicted by the devil's 
death brimstone and charcoal and saltpetre fires of hell, that send 
into the frail blood life bodies of mortals the ruthless bullets of 
lead and iron, with demon lightning speed, to mangle rend and dis- 
sever the arms, legs, and head from the poor mangled body : and 
the bombshells and cannon balls of iron hurled by hell-fire power 
by man to slay, mangle and torture their fellow men to death's 
devil exaltation delight : the horrid pain agonies of the dying and 
mangled are heeded not by the victorious murder demons cheers 
at the horrid deaths of their fellow mortals. 

Thus during the dark ages of popery's demoniac power rule for 
some twelve hundred and sixty years, from A.D. 538 to 1798, true 
religion was scarcely known ; even from the earliest history of 
Adam's fallen race, every benevolent feeling and every moral 
principle was trampled under foot ; the earth seemed little else 
than one great battle field of battling demons, until all were on 
the brink of total extermination. Gren. vii. 23 : And Noah only 
remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark. 



22 DAY THOUGHTS. 

Isa. xl. 7 : Surely the people is grass. 15 : Behold the na- 
tions are as a drop of a bucket : and are counted as the small dust 
of the balance (dust of the earth: Gen. iii. 19: Dust thou art, 
and unto dust shalt thou return). 17 : All nations before Grod 
are as nothing ; and they are counted to him less than nothing 
and vanity. 22 : The inhabitants of earth are as grasshoppers. 

23 : He bringeth the princes to nothing : he maketh the judges 
of earth as vanity. 24 : And the whirlwind shall take them away 
as stubble. Ps. xcii. 7 : When the wicked spring up as the grass, 
and . . . nourish, it is that they shall be destroyed. Ps. xciv. 
17 : Unless the Lord had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt 
in silence. Ps. ciii. 12 : As far as the east is from the west, so 
far hath Grod removed our transgressions from us (who are his 
spirit love-begotten children). 14 : He knoweth our frame ; he 
remembereth that we are dust. 15 : As for man (Adam's seed), 
his days are as grass. Ps. cxxxvii. 10 : For yet a little while and 
the wicked shall not be. Ps. cxlv. 20 ; clxv. 5 : The Lord pre- 
serveth all them that love him : but all the wicked will Grod destroy 
(Ps. cxxxix. 19 ; cvi. 18 ; civ. 35). 

Scarcely a vestige remained of religion, science, literature, or 
morality ; scarcely a vestige remaining of the efforts of the human 
mind. The debasing superstitions of the Romish Church, the 
hoarding of relics, the erection of monasteries and nunneries, the 
pilgrimages to the tombs of martyrs, the mummeries which 
were introduced into the services of religious mockeries, the wild 
and romantic expeditions of crusaders, the tyranny and ambition 
of popes, and the wars and insurrections to which they gave rise, 
usurped the place of every rational pursuit, and completely en- 
slaved the minds of men. So great was the ignorance which then 
prevailed, that persons of the most distinguished rank could neither 
read nor write. Even many of the clergy did not understand the 
breviary, or book of common (so-called) prayers, which they were 
daily accustomed to recite, and some of them could scarcely read 
it. The learning which then prevailed, under the name of philos- 
ophy and of scholastic theology, consisted chiefly in vain disquisi- 
tions and reasonings about abstract truths and incomprehensible 
mysteries, and in attempts to decide questions and points of the- 
ology which lie beyond the reach of the human mind like bound- 
less space, which its limited faculties are unable to resolve. 
Sophisms, falsehoods, and myths, regarding the resurrection of 
human bodies after they were worn out in some cases, and after 



DAY THOUGHTS. 23 

they had all rotted before their nature senses ; all of which actual 
knowledge that all human bodies are composed of earth elements, 
and that they all rot and return back to the same gases, and leave 
only for mortal vision lifeless dust remains. 

The Egyptian theology, somewhat of the Darwin progression 
order, that taught their adherents that the souls of mortals went 
into animals and animate nature life creatures, and when that died 
they sought for the old dead body previously used by them, as the 
miser seeks his old ragged clothes, and if the old body, or young 
body, was not rotted back to nature earth, a much more sensible 
myth than the myth god, to-day, of most churches on earth, who 
they teach will resurrect old, or young, rotten bodies ; and espe- 
cially when they are clearly taught that God made their first 
parent Adam of clean earth, and pronounced him good ; and not 
set their heathen, pagan, Roman Catholic traditions of men's 
fables myth god to manufacturing old worn-out carcasses and rot- 
ten bodies (worse than old clothes' insult to a tailor), that are 
clearly pronounced by Paul vile ; and a worse than Egyptian 
mummy myth gods also is their abominable mockery of God, with 
their myth devil god, that after resurrecting, as it were, rotten 
eggs, and impregnating them (the incorrigibly wicked's rotten, 
vile, sin lust begotten body), and putting in them, or impregnating 
rotten bodies, or eggs, with immortal life ; for God's life alone is 
in itself immortal (1 Tim. vi. 16), and then burning his own im- 
mortal life thus imparted to a rotten egg, or body, in an endless 
lake of fire and brimstone ; merely for the unmerciful revenge of 
vengeance, justice power upon a lifeless refuse of a rotten carcass, 
that was as a dust on a balance, and of no value whatever, and as 
a grasshopper. What mockery of reason's God, justice, sense, and 
how perfectly contradictory to Scripture truths ! And for what pur- 
pose ? reason asks ; and the foolish reply is, To keep the wicked 
from harming the righteous ; which one orthodox endless hell tor- 
ture preacher said to me not long since ; and fled before I could 
ask him, Why not, then, let the rotten filthy dead incorrigible 
sinner's body remain dead; and withdraw and consume, as filthy 
contaminated breath, the lives of all evil beings in a moment? for 
without God's aid nothing can live, move, or have a being. Acts 
xvii. 25 : God giveth to all life, and breath, and all things. 
For in God we live, and move, and have our being ; the negative 
must be out of God ; without his aid, or permission, nothing, not 
even the devil, could live a moment. 



24 DAY THOUGHTS. 

Heb. ii. 14 : The object of Jesus' blood life of woman's seed 
union with spirit power of Christ as judge, was for the just and 
lawful execution of the devil and all his associates of evil : then 
death itself will be destroyed. None but immortal beings pulsating 
spirit love life eternal will survive the last judgment day's fiery 
cleansing flood, that consumes all evil unclean spirits, rotten bodies, 
and earth, and earth's atmosphere. 2 Pet. iii. 10; Rev. xx. 11. 

Eloquence in the dark ages, as now, consisted in vague mythy 
imaginations, and futile declamations ; the masses of the people 
on earth to-day would rather read a mythy false imaginary love 
story of ridiculous conduct, and a picture of themselves in the 
past, or to hear a dubbed professor of fishy theology, that would 
tell them the human family began in its first ancestor a muscle, 
or oyster, or clam, and progressed up through all animate life 
creatures on earth, and then last of all earth life, human bodies. 
And the stock of progress being run out, their mythy fruitful 
imagination pictures a vulture god, that will resurrect their rotten 
mortal bodies, and re-enter them, part to enjoy happiness therein 
when resuscitated, and mended of course, when legs or arms are 
deficient, and the largest part are resurrected to roast eternally ; 
if they were to be eaten by cannibal myth gods, there would be 
more sense in their mythy novel theology. 

About the time of the revival of letters, after the dark ages of 
monkish superstition and ignorance, the moral and intellectual 
state of the inhabitants of Europe began to experience a change 
auspicious of better times, and of a more enlightened era : But, 
alas ! it may still be said with propriety regarding the masses of 
earth's inhabitants, gross darkness covers the people, a majority of 
whom to-day are debased in idolatry, superstition, and every ma- 
lignant passion ; and enslaved, by the cunning artifices of priests, 
with their freezing myth gods, of all heretics to their orthodox 
faith in cold climates ; and roasting them eternally in torture, in 
warm climates, in the tropics. 

Though the Christian religion has never yet been fully under- 
stood and recognized in many of its essential aspects and bearings, 
nor have its requirements been cordially complied with by the great 
body of those who profess to believe in its divine origin, yet it is 
only among those nations who have acknowledged its authority, and 
in some measure submitted t© its dictates, that anything approximat- 
ing to just conceptions of the supreme intelligence, and of its moral 
government, is found to prevail. Man is the highest order of 



DAY THOUGHTS. 25 

animal creation, and as such has animal lusts and propensities, 
that actuate and govern his blood life ; and like other animals, 
man and woman mate and propagate their species, their breath is 
the same as other animate life creatures, their blood pulsates life 
by way of a heart that propels it like a perpetual motion, with 
unperceivable power, while life lasts, thus also breath inflates their 
lungs to purify the blood, without perceptible aid from any other 
source than was given the first pair of each species, by their spirit 
life creator; from which all others since came into existence, by 
imparting mysteriously, by expansion of those powers, all possessed 
by their parents, without any perceptible diminution of power to 
live, and move, and have a being ; handed down through animal 
lust gratifications, and pains and sorrows, when developed very 
intense : yet these rapidly increase generation after generation, as 
doth all life on earth known, from sin's lust seed : nature life de- 
velopment soon dies, their bodies all alike soon decay, and become 
rotten ; as a rotten potato, or rotten apple, pear, pumpkin, squash, 
or any nature life inanimate seed, when it dies and decays. 

No body of mortal man or woman, or of any other life body on 
earth, animate or inanimate, after it saw corruption, was ever re- 
stored to sound nature body and life state ; nor will they ever be 
thus resurrected to life again. If I should proclaim to an intelli- 
gent audience that rotten apples and rotten potatoes would soon be 
resurrected, with sound body life, or a dead dog or cow, ox, sheep, 
horse, or any bird, fowl, or fish, or any living thing that had died 
on earth, would be resurrected to sound bodies and life again, all 
sane persons would consider such a remark as insane. But through 
myth false creeds, we have from the pulpits of churches on the 
earth to-day the ocular demonstration of such insane teaching and 
preachings of the resurrections of the dead rotten dust bodies of 
all Adam's race ; and that they are all immortal, and about one in 
ten of the preacher's children he begets for heaven, the other nine 
to be tortured eternally in a hell of fire and brimstone, merely to 
keep them from harming the one righteous one. It is a myth creed 
of rottenness, mockery of (rod, Hades covered from sight, obscure, 
dark, invisible. The invisible receptacle, grave, or mansion of the 
dead in general. 

I quote from the lexicon only the proper definition of the words. 
Our English word "hell" answers to the Greek word Hades, and de- 
notes a concealed or unseen place as the grave. Aion, time ; a 
space of time ; lifetime ; frequently the age of a man ; man's 
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26 BAY THOUGHTS. 

estate, a longer period of time ; eternity, aionios, eternal, lasting, 
permanent, as everlasting death of the wicked ; the negative of 
everlasting life of the righteous. The murderer, hung by the neck 
until dead, receives an everlasting punishment ; he never returns 
to life again ; he is as the candle burned, leaving but snuff-ashes 
of the wick of the body ; his tare unclean spirit ends with earth's 
fire death flood. Parkhurst, in his Greek and English Lexicon to 
the New Testament, gives the following as his primary general 
definition of aton : It denotes duration or continuance of time, but 
with great variety. Gehenna : two Hebrew words, ge a valley, 
and Hinnom the name of a person who was once the possessor of 
it. This valley of Hinnom lay near Jerusalem , and was for some time 
used for those abominable sacrifices in which the idolatrous Jews 
burned their children alive to Moloch, Baal, or the sun, Tophet ; 
from the fire furnace (Hebrew Topeth), in which they burned 
their children to Moloch. 

Lev. xviii. 21 : Thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through 
the fire to Moloch • neither shalt thou profane the name of thy 
God. 

Lev. xx. 2 : Whosoever giveth any of his seed unto Moloch, he 
shall surely be put to death. 

Jer. xxxii. 35 : Baal in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to 
cause their sons and daughters to pass through the fire unto 
Moloch (1 Kings xi. 7 ; 2 Kings xxiii. 10). 

Awn : Professor Stuart says the proper signification of aion and 
aionios is eternity and eternal ; and says that when used in a limited 
sense, it is a forced and unnatural use. Parkhurst makes the word 
from aei, always, and on being always being. Let us obtain truth 
by trial. 

Mark xv. 8 : As he had ever {aei) done unto them. 

Acts vii. 51 : Ye do always {aei) resist the Holy Ghost. 

2 Cor. iv. 1 1 : For we which live are always (aei) delivered unto 
death for Jesus' sake. 

2 Cor. vi. 10 : As sorrowful, yet always (aei) rejoicing. 

1 Pet. iii. 15 : Be ready always (aei) to give an answer. 

Eph. ii. 1 : And you hath he quickened, who were dead in tres- 
passes and sins. 

Ezek. xviii. 4 : The soul that sinneth it shall die. 

Gen. ii. 17 : For in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt 
surely die. Statute imperative law of God. Who contradicts God's 
law ? Satan's messenger viper serpent. 



DAY THOUGHTS. 27 

Gen. iii. 4, 5 : Ye shall not surely die. Who else? All who 
preach or teach that the wicked have life after blood life death, 
who are not soul spirit-born, in any form or place, after the close of 
time, and earth's tire flood. To the biblical scholar who takes up 
the Scriptures in child-like simplicity, and throws to the winds all 
men manufactured creeds of men (but in vain they do worship 
me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men, Matt. xv. 9), 
and discards all sectarian theology — a hard thing to do, for early 
teachings of parents and preachers, and their men-creeds, that dis- 
card God's statute laws, and make up their creeds out of miscon- 
strued parables, which when believed become as it were second 
nature habits of belief, good and bad — and apprehends the true 
sense of their teachings in their earliest lessons, it is a circumstance 
of soul-inspiring interest, that all in the way of his progress is con- 
firmation and growth. The light of truth grows brighter and 
brighter as he advances from step to step. 

With regard to the nature of the death introduced into the 
world by sin, we saw, on the first presentation of the subject, it 
must be moral or spiritual death, synonymous with condemnation. 
And here the apostle attests by a practical illustration the perfect 
correctness of our interpretation of his former teachings bearing on 
this subject. They who were in the enjoyment of the life of faith 
in Christ are described as raised out of the death of sin, when 
their soul mind through faith belief conception of Scripture truths, 
by way of baptism of the Holy Ghost, becomes a spirit-begotten 
and spirit-born child of God. 

1 John v. 18 ; iii. 10 : The first resurrection ; the second resur- 
rection, when raised from their dead body at blood life death. 
Luke xx. 35, 3G: Their condition in their sins verified the primi- 
tive admonition of the supreme lawgiver. 

Gen. ii. 17 : In the day that thou sinnest thou shalt surely die. 
(Ezek. xviii. 4, 20, 24, 27.) 

Professor Stuart, in a note to Greppo's Essay on Hieroglyphics, 
accepts the statement of Spinetto, that the Amenti of the Egyp- 
tians originated the classic fables of Hades, and Tartarus, Charon, 
Pluto, the judges of hell, the dog Cerberus, the chimeras, har- 
pies, gorgons, furies, and other such unnatural and horrible 
things with which the Greeks and Romans peopled their fanatic 
insane myth hell fires eternal tortures ; whom reason, and common 
sense thoughts, and truthful observation, readily discovers that 
all earthly life dies, and that all animate and inanimate bodies 



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soon moulder back to dead nature rottenness (Isa. v. 24 ; Dan. 
xii. 2). 

Dr. Widdawer, a celebrated Jewish scholar, fully versed in 
Hebrew, admitted to me that Dan. xii. 2, translated shame and 
contempt everlasting, would agree with Isa. v. 24, in the original 
Hebrew, as the state of the incorrigibly dead wicked, and their 
only resurrection was as rottenness stench ; remembrance of 
their wicked acts during their brief life on earth, of which their 
dead rotten bodies of nature blood life's dissolution resolved all 
their store back to nature's elements. He is a Mason ; and said 
there was not one word in all the Jewish writings during Solo- 
mon's life, nor during the time of the temple's building, or while 
it remained standing, in reference to anything whatever pertain- 
ing to Masonry ; Odd Fellowship is of a recent origin, arid a mere 
imitation of Masonry of older date. Both have good instruction, 
and admonitions, and rules of admission ; but members of both 
break their good rules, and admit, like churches, more bad than 
good men; and, like office-holders' titles of Hon., who from 
President to the lowest government official to-day, seem possessed 
of unclean spirits and Dis Hon., or dishonorable, evil beings 
who betray all their trusts reposed in them by honest people. But 
in 1872 and 1873, and years previous from 1861, the political 
creeds, like church creeds, with all their talk of punishment of 
the wicked, only seem to encourage wrong-doing : like the woman 
who told the thief who stole a shirt that he would be punished 
with endless hell-fire and brimstone torture in the day of judg- 
ment, " Then if you trust so long as that, I will take another 
shirt," says the thief, while taking another from the clothes-line. 
It is a truthful illustration of the effects of such doctrines, if not 
strictly an occurrence. 

Not the righteous Jesus doth call, 

But sinners to repentance all. 

Thus those whom Jesus Christ would save 

Men's creeds would burn beyond the grave. 

"Wages of sin is death in all ; 
Love hates no foes : they by death fall ; 
' Love tries to save them from soul-death, 
Ere ceases their probation breath. 

From the prophet Malachi to Christ, four hundred years, there 
was no prophet; and the Egyptian mummy body resurrectionists, 



DAY THOUGHTS. 29 

Greek and Roman philosophers, mythology, with their thirty-two 
thousand myth gods, was during those four hundred years of Jew- 
ish men creed darkness, highpriest rule, introduced into the high 
schools of the Jews, as now in all colleges ; and the scribes and 
Pharisee resurrection of the dead bodies of mortals, and the eter- 
nal hell-fire tortures of the incorrigibly wicked. Thus from the 
heathen Egyptian mummy pagan priests men creeds became the 
guide of fallen Jew priests, who murdered their only Saviour. 

Polybius the historian says: "Since the multitude is ever fickle, 
full of lawless desires, irrational passions and violence, there is no 
other way to keep them in order but by fear of punishment and 
terror of the invisible world, beyond body death ; on which ac- 
count our ancestors seem to me to have acted judiciously, when 
they contrived to bring into the popular belief these notions of 
the gods of the infernal regions." B. vi. 56. 

Dionysius Halicarnassus treats the whole matter as useful, but 
not true. Antiq. Rom., B. ii. 

Livy, the celebrated historian, speaks of it in the same spirit ; 
and he praises the wisdom of Numa, because he invented the fear 
of the gods as a most efficacious means of governing an ignorant 
and barbarous populace. Hist., i. 19. 

Strabo the geographer says : " The multitude are restrained 
from vice by the punishment the gods are said to inflict upon 
offenders, and by those terrors and threatenings which certain 
dreadful words and monstrous forms imprint upon their minds. . . . 
For it is impossible to govern the crowd of women, and all the 
common rabble, by philosophical reasoning, and lead them to 
piety, holiness and virtue ; but this must be done by superstition, 
or the fear of the gods, by means of fables and wonders ; for the 
thunder of the aegis, the trident, the torches of the furies, the 
dragons, etc., are all fables, as is also all the ancient theology. 
These things the legislators used as scarecrows to terrify the 
ignorant childish multitude." Geog., B. i. 

Timaeus Locrus, the Pythagorean, after stating that the doctrine 
of rewards and punishments after death is necessary to society, 
proceeds as follows : " For as we sometimes cure the body with 
wholesome remedies, when those most wholesome produce no 
effect, so we restrain those minds with false relations which will 
not be persuaded by the truth. There is therefore a necessity of 
instilling the dread of those foreign torments" (Egyptian. The 
Greek philosophers and lawgivers traveled into Egypt in order to 

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learn its wisdom, and to be initiated into its world-renowned mys- 
teries of the Egyptian mummy priests). 

Plato, in his commentary on Timseus, fully indorses what he says 
respecting the fabulous invention of these foreign torments. And 
Strabo says that Plato and the Brahmins of India invented fables 
concerning the future judgments of hell (Hades). And Chrysip- 
pus blames Plato for attempting to deter men from wrong by 
frightful stories of the future punishments. Plato himself is ex- 
ceedingly inconsistent sometimes, adopting even in his serious 
discourses the false fables of the poets ; and at other times re- 
jecting them as utterly false, and giving too frightful views 
of the invisible world. Sometimes he argues on social grounds, 
that they are necessary to restrain bad men from wickedness and 
crime ; then again he protests against them on political grounds as 
intimidating the citizens, and making cowards of the soldiers, who 
believe these thing's, are afraid of death, and do not therefore 
fight well, which shows in what light he regarded them ; not as 
truths certainly, but as fictions convenient in some cases, but 
difficult to manage in others. 

Plutarch treats the subject in the same way ; sometimes argu- 
ing for them with great solemnity and earnestness, and on other 
occasions calling them fabulous stories, the tales of mothers and 
nurses. 

Seneca says : " Those things which make the infernal regions 
terrible — the darkness, the prison, the river of flaming fire, the 
judgment seat, etc. — are all a fable with which the poets amuse 
themselves, and by them agitate us with vain terrors." Sextus 
Em piricus calls them "poetic fables of hell ;" and Cicero speaks 
of them as silly absurdities and fables (ineptus ac fabulis). 

Aristotle says : "It has been handed down in mythical form 
from the earliest times to posterity, that these are gods, and that 
the Divine Deity compasses all nature. All besides this has been 
added by the mythical mythology style, for the purpose of per- 
suading the multitude, and for the interest of the laws, and the 
advantage of the state." 

Neander's Church History, i. p. 7 : Thus the pagan doctrines of 
the transmigration of souls of bodies they embalmed, their mummy 
dead, and Grecian and Roman mythology myth Grod doctrines, and 
fabled poetry myths that was common among the Jews at the time 
the Lord preached to them in parables, and he used their myth 
mythology to illustrate spirit life truths. The Jews during four 



DAY THOUGHTS. 31 

hundred years previous had only false prophets, back to Malachi. 
Judaism itself had become corrupted (Matt. xv. 3-9). 

Brimstone fire comes not of love's power, 
Wars weapons of death to devour, 
Powder, death, brimstone, fire of hell, 
And warriors, devils, when man fell. 

Love your enemies, Jesus said, 
Pray for captives by Satan led, 
Not condemn them to endless fire, 
Showing that you have base desire. 

The law of Grod, by his messenger Moses, contains in its entire 
catalogue of its penalties and threaten ings no allusion to the pagan 
doctrine of endless punishment, or any punishment beyond blood 
life death. Temporal rewards and punishments and the death 
penalty are ever attached to sin, which laws and prophets Christ, 
God's messenger, came to fulfill. Philo, an Egyptian Jew cotem- 
porary with the Saviour, believed the air to be full of spirits, 
who from time to time descended to unite themselves with mortal 
bodies, being desirous to live in them again. And Josephus re- 
ports the Essenes, one of the five chief sects of the Jews, as holding 
the same views. 

Five brethren (Luke xvi. 28, 29) : Scribes, Pharisees, Sad- 
ducees, Essenes, Publicans. 

According to Herodotus, the Egyptians believed the soul would 
pass from one body to another until it had performed the circuit 
of all animals, terrestrial and marine, and birds of the air ; when it 
again takes up its abode in the human body. This transmigration 
it was supposed would fill up a period of three thousand years. 
There was a diversity of opinions in regard to the particulars of 
this curious arrangement, but the leading idea appears to be the 
punishment of the wicked and the resurrection of the body. A 
portion of the pagan heathen mummy preacher philosophers held 
that unless the human body was preserved from rottenness, the 
soul would never again have body resurrection, but would be con- 
fined to animate animal bodies as before. According to some 
authors the wicked only were subject to this punishment; the 
good and pious being received immediately, at blood life death, 
into rest, returning to the good being whence they emanated. 
And it would appear, according to Wilkinson, that common wicked, 



32 DAY THOUGHTS. 

not the criminals, or worst, were condemned to this purgatory ; 
the unpardonable sinner being condemned to eternal fire. 

The records of the ancient Greeks, confirmed by their monu- 
ments, open to us the origin of the doctrines of a judgment after 
death, and of future endless rewards and punishments for the good 
or evil deeds of this life. From the Egyptians it passed, with 
suitable modifications, to the Greeks and Romans : Diodorus him- 
self clearly shows that the fables of the Acherusian Lake, of 
Hecate, Cerberus, Charon, and the Styx, have their original in 
these Egyptian ceremonies and doctrines. If for two thousand 
years the eternal punishment was hid from the patriarchs, and 
two thousand years from the prophets, and revealed to Egyptians, 
Greeks, Romans, and other heathen, it would be a strange phe- 
nomenon. Then those who enjoyed divine instruction were left in 
error, while those who only had the light of nature for a guide 
found the truth regarding the incorrigibly wicked beyond the 
grave. And the pagans and their proselyted Jews had the eter- 
nal punishment doctrines ; and if the New Testament taught the 
same, it would be nothing new. 

Matt. i. 21 : He shall save his people from their sins : not in 
their sins, nor any but his people : spirit-born holy of his seed 
(Matt. xiii. 37, 38). In no place is it stated Christ came to save 
from endless punishment any person or persons ; nor does it any- 
where promise life in any place to the incorrigible sinner beyond 
blood life death, and the end of this world. 

Hell in the New Testament, Hades and Tartarus, which are 
Greek words, and Gehenna, which is the Greek from the Hebrew 
words Ge and Hinnom. Hades, this word is used eleven times, and 
is rendered " the grave" once, and " hell" ten times. In the Old 
Testament the corresponding word is " Sheol," which signifies the 
state of the dead in general, without any distinction of good and 
bad : their happiness or misery ; Hades does not mean hell in 
English ; Hades is put for the grave, or state of the dead : 
death, where is thy sting ? grave (Hades), where is thy victory? 
(1 Cor. xv. 55.) Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell (Hades) 
(Acts ii. 31). He (David) spake of the resurrection of Christ, 
that his soul was not left in hell, nor his flesh to see corruption. 
Was the soul of Christ ever in hell, as a place of endless torment? 
The resurrection of Christ contradicts this : and the flesh and 
bones, his spirit from heaven paradise, took up to talk with the 
apostles from the vault, grave, or dead. 



DAY THOUGHTS. 33 

Rev. vi. 8 : Hell followed death. The good, and the bad, all 
die blood-life body death. 

Rev. xx. 13 : Death and hell delivered up the dead, showing 
them already there, thus contradicting the creeds of men that holds 
them in endless punishment in hell. 14 : Death and hell anni- 
hilated, cast into the lake of fire : but nowhere says they live there 
one second, but this is the second or soul death (Ezek. xviii. 4). 

Matt. xi. 23 : Capernaum shalt be brought down to hell 
(Hades), ruined, destroyed, annihilated. Rich man and Lazarus: 
the rich man in (Hades) hell. Dr. Whitby says we find this very 
parable in the G-emara Babylonicum known to the Jews ; but 
repeated by Christ to show their spiritual riches would be taken 
from them and given to the Gentiles, who would accept of spirit 
life birth holiness, riches of faith which worketh by love. Grecian 
mythologists, with their thirty-two thousand myth gods, teach that 
the souls of the wicked are tormented in flames, or Phlegethon, 
the river of fire, where they suffer torments, etc. The Lord's 
parables, that used the Grecian mythology (at that time common 
among the Jews then under Rome), they had mixed them in their 
traditions and commandments of men with the Scriptures, until 
the commandments of Grod were made void by men-creeds, false 
and fabulous ; and it does not at all follow that our Lord approved 
of what the common people thought or spake concerning those 
matters, agreeably to the notions of the Greeks. In parabolic dis- 
courses, provided the doctrines inculcated are strictly true, the 
terms in which they are inculcated may be such as are most fa- 
miliar to the ears of the vulgar, and the images made use of such 
as they are best acquainted with. 

Christ takes the story or parable current among the Jews, and, 
without approving the heathen opinions on which it was founded, 
uses it to show that the G-entiles, who believed Christ's truths 
(Lazarus), would be received into the gospel kingdom with 
Abraham and Isaac, in the faith covenant which worketh by 
love (Gal. v. 6) ; while the Jews (the rich man) would be thrust 
out into darkness and desolation. They broke the covenant, re- 
jected Christ: thus formed an impassable gulf, and this judgment 
he represents by the figure of casting into hell, as he had de- 
scribed the destruction of Capernaum (Matt. xi. 23) by saying 
it would be thrust down to hell. A perfect commentary on the 
parable is found in such passages as these : " The kingdom of 
God shall be taken from you, and given to a. nation bringing forth 



34 DAY THOUGHTS. 

the fruits thereof: Matt. xxi. 43, 45. Chief priests and Phari- 
sees perceived that he spake of them. 

Matt. viii. 11, 12: Many shall come from the east and west, 
and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the 
kingdom of heaven : but the children of the kingdom shall be 
cast out into outer darkness (the Jews, the rich man). There 
shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 

Angels saved Lot from Sodom hell, 
Poor preacher, or it had not fell. 
Ten converts Sodom would have saved, 
Though all the rest were hell depraved. 

Blood on the door posts the Jew saves, 
The Lord's token, while they were slaves, 
While the plagues Egyptians destroy, 
Though faithless, blood brought Jews great joy. 

Luke xiii. 28, 29 : The same. 

Acts xiii. 46 : It was necessary that the word of God should 
first have been spoken to you ; but seeing ye put it from you, and 
judge (show) yourselves unworthy of Everlasting Life, 
lo, we turn to the Gentiles. 

Tartarus. This word occurs only once, and then in practical 
form, in 2 Peter ii. 4 : "If God spared not the angels that 
sinned, but cast them down to hell," etc. Tartarosas is one of 
the same character with the parable just considered, Tartarus 
being the place of torment in Hades, where the rich man was sup- 
posed to be. Tartarus here is derived from the heathen, and 
chains of darkness from the Jewish mythology ; a dramatic figure. 

Gehenna. This word occurs twelve times in the New Testa- 
ment, and is always translated "hell." Gehenna: Hebrew, "Val- 
ley of Hinnom." Here the Jew idolaters placed a brazen image 
of Moloch, where Jews often sacrificed their children to Moloch. 

Jer. vii. 31 : This valley is called Tophet, from toph, a drum ; 
because they beat a drum during those horrible murder rites, lest 
the cries and shrieks of the infants who were burned should be 
heard by the assembly. 

2 Kings xxiii. 10 : Josiah abolished Moloch worship, and re- 
newed the pure worship of God. After this they held the place 
in such abomination that they cast into it all kinds of filth, dead 
horses, and other dead animals, and the unburied bodies of crimi- 



DAY THOUGHTS. 35 

nals who had been executed. Continual fires were necessary to 
consume these, lest putrefaction of the dead bodies should infect 
and poison the atmosphere ; and there were always worms feeding 
on the unburnt pieces around the fire : thus infamous death of 
the wicked was described by the word Gehenna, or hell. Profes- 
sors Stuart, Whitby, Clark, and others, confirm the above. 

Jer. xix. : Tophet (or Gehenna). Overthrow of Jerusalem : 
destroyed, silent as the grave, annihilated. 

Isaiah lxvi. 23, 24 : Their worm shall not die, neither shall 
their fire be quenched ; and they shall be an abhorring unto all 
flesh : from one new moon to another, and from one Sabbath to 
another, shall all flesh look upon the carcasses of the men. That 
is, not living men, but dead bodies, in hell. Gehenna was an ob- 
ject of abhorrence and disgust. 

Matt. v. 29 : Whole body cast into hell. Gehenna was a word 
in common use among the Jews to describe an infamous death. 
The wicked should perish in death, and have no resurrection. 
They cast the wicked into Gehenna, hell, and burned up their 
dead bodies. 

Through faith in Christ's blood, saints are saved ; 

All others die by sins depraved, 

Give up blood life's evils and live, 

Soul mind's spirit birth Christ doth give. 

Blest is the man who shuns the place 
Where sinners love to meet disgrace, 
Who mock God's resurrection power, 
With hell fire tortures to devour. 

Mark ix. 43-49 ; Isa. lxvi. 23, 24 : The same. Judgments all 
upon this earth, which is hell's deposit of all the dead. No life 
hath the wicked dead. 

Jer. vii. 8, 9 : Ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit. 

Matt. x. 28 ; Luke xii. 5 : Entire extinction of being (Dr. Clarke) ; 
altogether consumed. Christ represents God as able to destroy 
(annihilate) the wicked soul and body in Gehenna fire. 

Matt. xxiv. 21 : Nor ever shall be ; showing that at that partic- 
ular time only the greatest suffering occurs. 

James iii. 6 : Gehenna fires the tongue with filthy stories, and 
falsehoods, blasphemy, etc., told by the tongue hell fire. 

Matt, xxiii. 15 : Twofold more the child of hell than yourselves. 
27 : (Gehenna, or hell) full of dead men's bones, and of all un- 



36 DAY THOUGHTS. 

cleanliness. Hell (Gehenna) are terms used to anything foul or 
repulsive, as dead rotten bodies. 

Matt. v. 22 : Whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger 
of hell-fire anger. Would endless punishment, tortures in fire, be 
a just judgment on such an expression ? Acts, thirty years 
preaching, proclaims no endless Gehenna or hell punishment. 

Jer. vii. 20 : And Jerusalem shall burn, and shall not be 
quenched : unquenchable fire. 

Matt. iii. 12 ; Heb. xii. 29 : Our God is a consuming fire (un- 
quenchable). 

Isa. xxxiv. 5,9: Idumea. It shall not be quenched ; the smoke 
thereof shall go up forever, of brimstone and burning pitch. 

Isa. i. 31 : Unquenchable fire is simply not quenched until it 
has done its work. Deut. iv. 24. 

Strabo, the geographer, speaking of the Parthenon, a temple in 
Athens, says : In this was the unquenchable lamp (Asbestos). 

Mark ix. 43 ; Luke iii. 17 : The chaff (the incorrigibly wicked) 
he will burn with fire unquenchable. 

Heb. xii. 29 : Our God is a consuming fire : unquenchable, and 
consumes the wicked in a moment (Numb. xvi. 21) : not in end- 
less tortures unconsuming fire. Horner uses the phrase asbestos 
gelos, unquenchable laughter. Plutarch calls the sacred fire of the 
temple unquenchable fire : pur asbeston, the exact expression of the 
Lord Jesus Christ, though Plutarch says it had sometimes gone out. 

Josephus says the altar of the Jews was supplied by them with 
fuel, and continued always unquenchable (cisbeston aei) or endless, 
aionios ; yet, when he wrote, the fire was out. Eusebius, the 
father of ecclesiastical history, describing the martyrdom of several 
Christians at Alexandria, says : They were scourged and burned in 
unquenchable fire (pur asbeston). Schleusner's Lexicon, asbestos; 
Iliad, lib. i., 599 ; Cruse's Eusebius, lib. vi., chap. 41, 259. The 
fire burned until it consumed the victims. 

Numb. xvi. 21 : Moses and Aaron, separate yourselves from 
among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment. 

Deut. iv. 24 : For the Lord our God is a consuming fire. 

Unquenchable does not mean endless fire, nor do the wicked live 
in the fire ; they die in a moment. Shall learned men presume to 
understand Greek better than the Greeks themselves, or Hebrew 
better than the Jews ? A man who learns all the Babel languages 
known on the earth, from that source alone, knows no more than 
when he learned his native language thoroughly. 



DAY THOUGHTS. 37 

What harm can a wooden god do ? 
The same as a false creed in you : 
If believed in soul mind as truth, 
Your worship's false, in age or youth. 

Condemned already because 
Of unbelief in God's grace laws, 
Sentenced to death beyond grace power. 
Death soul and body doth devour. 

John iii. 18. 

Markxiii. 19 : Affliction such as was not .... neither shall be. 
The Old Testament shows all punishment to be temporal, earthly, 
and not endless ; which is Grod's law, that Jesus came to fulfill ; 
and gave no other law but love. 

John xiii. 34 : Love one another : a new commandment. The 
Greek word, endless, does not express pur asbeston. There is no 
proof that the Saviour used unquenchable fire to mean endless fire, 
but as a parable figure of certain death of bodies and souls of all 
incorrigibly wicked. 

Heb. xii. 29 : For our Grod is a consuming fire; not non-consu- 
ming. 

Words " Eternal," " Everlasting," " Forever," etc. — axon and 
aionios occur together one hundred and seventy-nine times in the 
New Testament. They are used only nine times in connection with 
punishment. The expression everlasting fire occurs twice ; ever- 
lasting punishment once. 

Matt. xxv. 46 : These shall go away into everlasting punishment. 
Who are these ? 32 : All nations bad. 

Matt. xi. 21 : Woe unto thee, Chorazin ! Woe unto thee, Beth- 
saida ! 22, 23 : It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at 
the day of judgment, than for you. And thou, Capernaum, which 
art exalted unto heaven, shall be brought down to hell : for if the 
mighty works which have been done in thee had been done in 
Sodom, it would have remained until this day. 24 : It shall be more 
tolerable for the land of Sodom, in the day of judgment, than for 
thee. Eternal damnation once; condemnation. 

John iii. 18 : He that believeth not, is condemned (damned) 
already. 

Rom. viii. 1-13 : For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die. 

Rom. vi. 23 : For the wages of sin is death ; but the gift of Grod 
is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. 

G-al. vi. 7, 8 : He that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh 

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S8 DAY THOUGHTS. 

reap corruption. A rotten body : Schleusner defines the noun axon 
thus : Any space of time, whether longer or shorter, past, present, 
or future, to be determined by the persons or things of whom it 
speaks (God who only hath immortality, 1 Tim. vi. 16); man, of 
few days, and full of trouble Job xiv. 1), and the scope of the 
subject. 

Donnegan : Aion, time ; a space of time ; life time, and life ; the 
ordinary period of man's life ; the age of man ; man's estate ; a long 
period of time ; eternity. Amnios, of long duration ; eternal, lasting, 
permanent. Schrevelius : Aion, an age, a long period of time ; in- 
definite duration ; time, whether longer or shorter, past, present, 
or future ; life, the life of man. Aionios, of long duration, lasting, 
sometimes everlasting, sometimes through life. Eis tons aionas ton 
aionon. Thus it is on time : the radical Greek words translated 
" everlasting," " forever," etc., are not imperative endless, but, as a 
whole, indefinite time. 

The mud grub of the mountain rill 
The dragon fly's beginnings fill, 
Water element it pulsates, 
Thence on the shore air death awaits ; 

Then resurrection air life wings, 
Through space it flies, which life joys brings. 
Thus higher spheres the ant attains 
When winged, but still the ant remains. 

Dr. Macknight (Presbyterian) says: " Aionios, aion, everlasting, 
forever ; being ambiguous, are always to be understood according 
to the nature and circumstances of the things to which they are 
applied." 

Plato has the phrase eternal (aionios) drunkenness ; but no sane 
man believes he meant endless drunkenness. 

Eusebius says chaos which preceded creation was a long eternity, 
(dia polun aiona), age, dispensation, or until consumed by death, 
fire, etc. 

Solon : Parab, this eternity was three generations long, or about 
one hundred years : Alters not the eternal boundaries. If eternal 
meant endless, it could not be altered. 

Aristotle : From one interminable eternity to another eternity, — 
ex aionos atennonos eis heteron aiona. If the first eternity was 
endless, there could be no second eternity. (Preceding probation 
blood life, and spirit life probation : time.) 



DAY THOUGHTS. 39 

Joscphus wrote of the everlasting worship in the temple, which 
ended over eighteen hundred years since. The everlasting impris- 
onment of John the Tyrant by the Romans ended with his death. 
Sibylline oracles, Clemens Alexandrinus, Origen, and others, 
who taught final restoration, often used the phrase everlasting fire, 
everlasting punishment, in regard to the wicked ; which truthfully 
means while they have life, which the fire consumes, when they 
cease to have a being. 

Gen. xvii. 8 ; xlviii. 4 : Canaan, for an everlasting possession ; 
centuries since the Jews were driven from it. 
Gen. xlix. 26 : Everlasting hills. 

Exod. xl. 15 : Everlasting priesthood, through their generations. 
2 Thess. i. 7 : The Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven ' 
with his mighty angels. 8 : In flaming fire (Deut. iv. 24 ; Heb. 
xii. 29 : Our God is a consuming fire). Taking vengeance on them 
that know not God, and obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus 
Christ : who shall be punished with everlasting destruction (anni- 
hilation). 

Matt. xxv. 46 : And these shall go away into everlasting pun- 
ishment. It does not let them live there one minute : they go into 
it. There is no life beyond time's close in the Scriptures stated for 
the wicked. 

Numb. xvi. 21 : That I may consume them in a moment. 
Everlasting life is only promised to the righteous (Dan. xii. 2 ; 
Matt. xix. 29; Luke xviii. 30; John iii. 16; iv. 14; v. 24; 
vi. 27 ; xl. 47 ; xii. 50). 

Acts xiii. 46 : Seeing ye (Jews) unworthy of everlasting life, 
lo, we turn to the Gentiles. 

Rom. vi. 22 ; Gal. vi. 7, 8 ; 1 Tim. i. 16 : Them which believe on 
Christ to everlasting life. Incorrigibly wicked have no promise of 
life whatever in any place or form : after the close of time they all 
die, their worm lives, to devour their dead bodies. 

Mortals, like grubs, cling to blood life, 
Its lusts and appetites, sin's strife ; 
Soul minds spirit born soar above, 
And pulsate spirit life of love. 

To dare to say what others think, 

But from proclaiming natures shrink, 

Makes men martyrs, reformers, too, 

But Shaw's Day Thoughts dares truth pursue. 



40 DAY THOUGHTS. 

Ex. xxi. 6 : He shall serve his master forever : while he had life, 
forever ended at his death : it is while the thing lasts (Lev. xvi. 34). 

Jonah ii. 6 : The earth with her bars was about me forever : 
three days. The word everlasting borrows its endlessness from God, 
not from everlasting. 

1 Tim. vi. 16 : God only hath immortality. 

The adjective is modified by the noun. A strong horse, a strong 
mind, a strong chain, strong drink, etc. ; strong in each has a differ- 
ent meaning. A wise God ; a wise man. In the first, wise means 
infinite wisdom ; in the second, finite earthly wisdom. The sub- 
ject or noun rules the words used, and is the same in everlasting ; 
it never has the force of endless in itself ; and in order to make it 
mean endless when applied to punishment, it must be shown that 
punishment in its nature is necessarily endless, and infinite as 
God, is. 

Matt. xxv. 46 : The righteous into eternal life. John iii. 5 : 
Spirit born. 1 John iii. 1, 2: Sons of God. 10: Children of 
God : thus partaking of the divine immortal life nature. 

Rom. viii. 9 : Having God's spirit and Christ's. 

Heb. xii. 9 : Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the 
Father of spirits, and live ? clearly showing unspirit born of God 
cannot live immortal life, but must inevitably die, be annihilated 
as to life : cease to exist : everlasting punishment : everlasting death : 
having no resurrector, or life. 

John xi. 25, 26 ; v. 40 : Ye will not come unto me that ye might 
have life. Where else can they obtain it ? 

Luke xx. 35-38 : The endless life is of God. 

1 John v. 18 : Everlasting hills differ infinitely from everlasting 
Spirit, God ; because hills are perishable matter, and consume with 
the earth at the close of time ; as do all Adam's sin-lust race, and 
Satan, and all his race of unclean tare spirits. 

John xiv. 6 : Jesus saith, I am the way, and the truth, and the 
life ; no man cometh unto the Father but by me. And God only 
is immortal (1 Tim. vi. 16). 



THE SECOND DEATH. 

Rev. ii. 11 : He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second 
death. 

Rev. xx. 6 : Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first 



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resurrection (Christ spirit birth resurrection, Eph. ii. 1 ; John 
iii. 5 ; 2 Cor. v. 17). On such the second death hath no power. 

Ezek. xviii. 4-20 : The soul that sinneth it shall die : first blood 
life death ; second soul death, or its unclean spirit product tare. 

Rev. xx. 14 : This is the second death : death and hell cast into 
the lake of fire : no life lives there. 

Rev. xxi. 8 : Have their part in the lake which burneth with 
fire and brimstone : which is the second death. 

Not that they live in fire and brimstone, as falsely taught. It 
is a valuable observation of Dr. Hammond, respecting this phrase, 
that it seems to be taken from the Jews, who used it proverbially 
for utter destruction. First resurrection when spirit born from the 
dead (Eph. ii. 1). Second resurrection at blood life death (Luke 
xx. 35, 36). 

The spirit-born new creature in Christ leaves then forever the 
dead body. 

Rev. xx. 14, 15 : This is the second death. Whosoever was not 
found written in the book of life, spirit birth-life, living on earth 
at its close fire flood, was cast into the lake of fire. 

Matt. xvi. 27, xxiv., 31 ; Rev. xi. 2 : One commentator quotes 
Luke xx. 35, 36 : In the resurrection all are equal unto the angels 
(the word all is false). It is they which shall be accounted worthy; 
the resurrection from (not of) the dead. The apostles by their dili- 
gent watch, and ready refutation of lies and interpolations, kept 
pagan creeds measurably in check ; but after their death, many 
persons educated in the schools (as in colleges now) of the heathen 
mythology philosophers became converts to the Christian faith, and 
the false doctrines of the Grecian heathen sects, with their numer- 
ous priests, and thirty-two thousand myth gods, and one to the un- 
known God (Acts xvii. 23). As the eclectic philosophy spread, 
heathen and Christian doctrines of men were more intimately 
blended, until at last (Rev. xiii. 11 : He spake as a dragon) under 
the tyranny of the man of sin, the Pope of Rome, both were al- 
most entirely lost in the thick clouds of ignorance, wars, barbar- 
ism, and superstitions, which covered the earth, and deluged it 
with hell wars bloodshed ; ruin of inquisition tortures, and fire 
death of Christians, calling them heretics. If the Bible had not 
been preserved, religious pagan chaotic night would have covered 
the earth by this time. And with it, now, we have no sect wholly 
in conformity with the Scriptures, on the earth. The Universal- 
ists, who early saw the horrid mockery of God (who reveals him- 



42 DAY THOUGHTS. 

self always as good love, mercy and justice), as a monster who 
would as a demon of hate resurrect dead bodies, to devour in end- 
less fire tortures, after making them immortal to endure fire and 
brimstone lake's tortures, pain horrors of demoniac imaginations ; 
when in truth only earth's dissolution by fire, and those alive on 
it at time's close not found worthy of resurrection to heaven, were 
described ; but they ring in the word " all" falsely and fraudulently, 
when it is plainly stated in Luke xx. 35, 36 : " Those accounted 
worthy." They call all Adam's race, because the Lord Jesus 
Christ would not, they say, have sacrificed his life for so few, as 
those who are spirit-born holy, etc., when they are plainly told 
(Gen. vi. 7) that the Lord God swept out of existence life in any 
form or place ; all Adam's sin-lust race on earth, but one family, 
Noah's. There are in all many millions of Adam's race, no doubt, 
whose soul minds are spirit-born holy through faith belief of scrip- 
ture truths, saved through Christ's sacrificial atonement for their 
souls (Lev. xvii. 11). 

Matt. vii. 13 : Broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and 
many there be which go in thereat. 14 : Because strait is the gate 
and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be 
that find it. They also flatly contradict God, by agreeing with the 
serpent, Gen. iii. 4, 5, Ye shall not surely die, but be as gods 
(immortal in life). 

Gen. ii. 17 : God says, Thou shalt surely die. Orthodox church 
creeds of men contain the same flat contradiction of God's statute 
law imperative, by making the incorrigibly wicked immortal in hell 
fire's endless tortures ; while Universalists, equally contradictory 
of God, make them immortal in heaven. 

Gen. iii. 19 : Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. 
No reserve of anything whatever. 

Gen. 22. 24 : Prevented from living forever in any place or 
form. 

Obad. 16 : They shall be as if they had not been. 

Ezek. xviii. 4 : The soul that sinneth it shall die (Isa. v. 24 ; 
Mai. iv. 1). 

Such a confused mixing of spirit Babel creed towers, and sects 
of professed Christians, Jews, Pagans, etc., concentrated in the 
Roman inquisition, and handed down through partial reformers ; 
endless hell-fire torture hatred madness, utterly insane with hate 
imaginations false as Satan their father could invent ; in utter con- 
tradiction of God's truth law of utter death of the incorrigibly 



DAY THOUGHTS. 43 

wicked, as clearly revealed by the Lord, whose power and goodness 
they mock and insult ; heathenish mummy superstitions of Egypt, 
and mythology of Greek and Roman philosophers, which began 
while the Lord's apostles preached the truth ; how much more 
since their decease. They all mix truth and falsehood in every 
man-creed sect on earth ; none are infallible but God and his Scrip- 
ture truths. Then throw to the winds men-creeds ; take the Bible 
as thy only guide to truth and heaven. Amalgamation of truth 
and love with falsehood and hatred is a bad creed. 

Among the Greeks and people of the east, mysteries were held 
sacred ; this led Christians to claim apparent superior wisdom in 
the preacher, to the lay membership of the churches, and to have 
similar mysteries to certain holy rites concealed from the vulgar. 
And, says Mosheim, they not only applied the pagan terms, but 
introduced also their rites in the second century of Christian ob- 
servances, and institutions had the aspect of pagan mysteries. 
In the fifth century, he says, as no one objected to Christians re- 
taining the opinions of their pagan ancestors respecting the soul, 
heroes, demons, temples, and the like, and no one proposed to 
utterly abolish the ancient pagan institutions, but only to alter 
the same to purify them ; they substitute each official in the 
church, as pope, cardinal, and bishop, in place of Moloch, Baal, 
goddess Diana of the Ephesians, etc. 

Each man-creed sect have their man-founder image head to 
worship with his man-creed ; Martin Luther, John Calvin, John 
Wesley, Henry VIII., king of the English Church, Emperor of 
Russia of the Greek Church : Popes, Cardinals, Bishops, D.D.'s, 
Professors, etc., as infallible men creed makers. It was unavoid- 
able when selfish men (all like ourselves fallible men : Scripture 
alone the true guide) popes desired, as Satan, to lord it over 
God's heritage ; seek applause of men, and rule in arbitrary au- 
thority over their fellow men. The doctrine of purgatory, the 
purification of souls after blood life death by some sort of fire 
torture, which became after its promulgation a great source of 
wealth to the clergy, or hireling shepherd wolves, in pretended 
sheep's clothing. Finally, the barrier of ancient simplicity and 
truth being once violated, the state of theology waxed worse and 
worse ; philosophical mythology's myth jargon, like the Pope of 
Borne, the Moloch idol, by whom Christians (called by them 
heretics) for over twelve hundred years were tortured in inquisi- 
tion hells to death, by fire fagots, and every variety then known 



44 DAY THOUGHTS. 

of torture, it would seem : and the pope was worshiped, and is 
still, as Papa Father, in flat contradiction of Christ's commands : 
Matt, xxiii. 9 : Call no man your father, upon the earth ; for one 
is your Father which is in heaven. 

Popery has recently added to the Moloch pope, the mysterious, 
PSter stone keys ; made Mary the mother of creation's God ; and 
the pope recently infallible: thus his worshipers cry, Great is the 
Pope of Rome ! A poor fallible mortal, sinking lower and lower 
in power every year. It is a mere change of idols ; the worship is 
still pagan, and dead mortal bodies substituted for wooden images 
of mortals. ' Gnostics intermixed the doctrines of Oriental philos- 
ophy concerning the two opposing principles, good and evil, with 
the precepts of Christianity, and the authority of Zoroaster as an 
inspired personage like Christ. Ammonia ns tried to unite all the 
schools of pagan philosophy, and all the various doctrines of men 
creeds (the last the greatest absurdity), and both to the doctrines 
of the Scriptures : the church thus became flooded with corrup- 
tion. — Toilers Universal History, B. v., chap. 4. 

Under the strong partiality for Plato and his pagan mythology 
doctrines, many theologians disseminated Platonic notions as Chris- 
tian truths ; thus poisoning mortal minds with false men creeds, 
that mar Scripture truth. Justin Martyr, Athenagoras, and 
Clemens Alexandrinus, in whose writings Platonic sentiments and 
language clearly show a desire to unite Platonic and Christian 
doctrines in the second century. And it was natural for them to 
adopt the pagan doctrine of endless punishment after death, 
which had been taught them from childhood, as the philosophy of 
the (myth) gods of politics and corrupt theology. It would be 
a strange phenomenon if the old fables, Hades and Tartarus, were 
not introduced to frighten the ignorant multitude. 

Father, forgive them, all niy foes ; 
Thus said my Saviour ere life's close, 
As his blood life for souls he gives, 
Who, spirit born, through his life lives. 

The sword harms not while in the sheath, 
Thus thoughts false, temptations beneath, 
If the soul's will door barred within, 
Shuts out the tempter, and his sin. 

Clement of Rome (a.d. 90) in his epistle says not a word about 



DAY THOUGHTS. 45 

future punishment, save endless death, annihilation, which the 
Scriptures plainly teach ; so that a wayfaring man, though a fool, 
need not err. Shall we, says Clement, think it strange for the 
Lord of all to raise up those who religiously serve him in the 
assurance of a good faith ? — Chap. xii. : Wake's translation. This 
clearly shows that the apostles and early Christians taught no re- 
surrection of the wicked : and righteous only, raised at blood life 
death, deemed worthy of it by the Lord (Luke xx. 35, 36). 

Rom. vi. 23 : For the wages of sin is death. 

Rom. viii. 13 : For if ye live after the flesh ye shall die. 

Gal. vi. 8 : He that soweth to the flesh shall of the flesh reap 
corruption. 

Ignatius (a.d. 110) says they die in their disputes; but much 
better it would be for them to receive the Eucharist (that through 
the body of Christ) ; they might one day rise through it. — Epis. 
to the Smyrnians, chap. i. 8 ; ii. 17, Wake's translation : show- 
ing he thought the wicked would not rise. 

Poly carp (a.d. 112) says nothing about endless punishment. 
Annihilation of the wicked can be plainly inferred from his 
writings. 

Barnabas (a.d. 130-140). The way of darkness is crooked, 
and full of cursing ; for it is the way of eternal death. They meet 
with things that destroy their own souls (Ezek. xviii. 4, 20, 24, 
27 : The soul that sinneth it shall die). Gnostics, regarded as 
heretics, also mixed pagan philosophy with Christian doctrines 
until the compound was unintelligible jargon. They differ from 
orthodox creeds of men, by adding too much heathen myth gods 
mummies, resurrections of mythology. — Milmans History of 
Christianity, B. ii., chap. 7. 

Sun's rays bring to earth heat and light, 
Thus God's Word soon beams forth in might, 
Christ's love expands on every side, 
Humbly believe, sinners deride. 

Cast all your cares on Jesus now, 
He careth for you when you bow. 
Tribulations patience matures, 
Patience experience secures. 

A.D. 160-190. — The last date brings us to the distinguished 
Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons, France. He says : " The principle of 



46 DAY THOUGHTS. 

existence is not inherent in our constitutions, but is given us of 
God. He who cherishes the gift of existence, and is thankful to 
the giver, shall exist forever ; but he who despises it, and is un- 
grateful, deprives himself of the privileges of existence forever. 
He who is unthankful to God for temporal life, which is little, 
cannot justly expect from him existence which is endless." 
Agreeing with Justin Martyr (the Scripture truths and statute 
laws of God, of life to the righteous, and death wages to sin. 
Rom. vi. 23 : For the wages of sin is death ; but the gift of God 
is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord), that the wicked 
are annihilated who are not spirit-born holy. 

A.D. 200-220. — Tertullian, a pagan by birth, and an African 
lawyer by profession. He was the first who taught immortal life 
torments to the wicked. He was of a fierce and fiery hate temper, 
void of love, a child of the devil. His discourses on the subject 
of hell-fire torment showed him to be a demon, in the following 
exultant strain : " You are fond of your spectacles," said he to the 
pagans. " When all ages shall be swallowed up in one conflagra- 
tion, what a variety of spectacles shall then appear. How shall I 
admire, how laugh, how rejoice, how exult, when I behold so 
many kings and false gods together, with Jove himself, groaning 
in the lowest abyss of darkness ! So may magistrates, who per- 
secuted the name of the Lord, liquifying in fiercer flames than 
they ever kindled against Christians, so many sage philosophers, 
blushing in raging fire, with their scholars, who they permitted to 
despise God and disbelieve the resurrection ! Then shall we see 
the dancers far more sprightly amid the flames ; the charioteer all 
red-hot in his burning car ; and the wrestlers hurled upon a plain 
of fire," etc., etc. Guizot attempts to soften the translation of 
Gibbon ; but Milman frankly owns that Christians had better 
retreat upon genuine truth records of the Scriptures, than to iden- 
tify itself with unchristian fanaticism. — Decline and Fall, chapter 
xv., note 72, and the text. 

Tertullian said the soul is corporeal, etc. The black serpent in 
Eden (Gen. iii. 4, 5) hissed out the same demon hate, guise, 
beguiling lies, ye shall not surely die. Tertullian serpent, im- 
mortal in fire. 

God's invisible Spirit made 
Mortals' voice words, but creature said 
God's voice is neither heard or seen, 
Secret prayers have no voice screen. 



DAY THOUGHTS. 47 

With all the mind and soul God seek 
In secret faith, love, humble, meek, 
To seek God in what man's voice said, 
Is to seek living among dead. 

a.d. 540-553. — In a church council (of which the devil's in- 
fallible pope council was an emblem), they adopted dead body 
corruption, resurrection of all Adam's race, and endless fire tor- 
tures of the wicked : thus five hundred years of pagan philos- 
ophy, mixture of mythology gods of hell-fire hatred to rule out, 
love thy neighbor as thyself : which hell fires they soon begun by 
the Roman popes, and cardinals, and bishops, and priests,' in- 
quisition tortures of hell, for over twelve hundred years, or until 
the Reformation of Luther and others. The early writers of the 
church frequently spoke of everlasting or eternal punishment, as 
eternal utter death, annihilation of body and souls, of incorrigibly 
wicked, which the Scriptures plainly teach : Gen. ii. 17 ; iii. 19- 
24 ; Isa. v. 24 ; Ezek. xviii. 4, 20, 24, 27 : The soul that sinneth 
it shall die. Eccles. xii. 7 ; Obad. 16 ; Mai. iv. 1, and all through 
the Bible the same language. Rom. vi. 23 : For the wages of sin 
is death ; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ 
our Lord. Gal. vi. 7, 8, 15: Be not deceived; God is not 
mocked ; for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap. 
For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption ; but 
he that soweth to the spirit shall of the spirit reap life everlasting. 

Justin Martyr and Irenseus say the wicked will be condemned 
to everlasting punishment, annihilation. So says God's Scriptures ; 
save the devil's serpent preacher, Gen. iii. 4, 5, ye shall not surely 
die : which is the only promise of life beyond the close of time, in 
any form, or place, to the finally lost, incorrigibly wicked. Satan's 
serpent liars still beguile mortals. 

A.D. 400-430. — Augustine argued first, that aionios was end- 
less, but discovered his error on examination, and admitted it was 
not always, but sometimes it was : when applied to man it is not ; 
but to God, it was. As well say that man and God were equals. 

Matt. vi. 15 ; vii. 12, 15, 16 : Beware of false prophets, which 
come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening 
wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. 

Like stars the brightest saint will shine 
With borrowed light from Christ divine ; 
Christ as heaven's spirit sunlight, 
God his Father's glory in sight. 



48 DAY THOUGHTS. 

God's children walk with God each day, 
Of him they think, to him they pray ; 
The wicked think most evil here, 
And hate and judge Christians severe. 

The Pope of Rome and his cardinals, bishops, and preachers, 
for some twelve hundred and sixty years, preached hell fire 
and brimstone tortures endless of the wicked, and applied the 
fire tortures as devils in ocular demonstration, save it was the 
righteous instead of the wicked they burned. The savage creed 
begets a savage temper, and a corresponding conduct ; hell fire tor- 
tures endless is as stones for food of God's spirit-born love spirit 
children. And it teaches the unspirit-born to hate them, and their 
god of endless tortures hate, if they teach such demon creeds of 
men, that flatly contradict heaven's God of goodness, love, mercy, 
and source of every blessing, and justice, righteousness, holiness. 
The ocular demonstration of believers of endless hell fire tortures 
in power to carry out their creed was manifest in their crusades 
against the Albigenses. 

A. d. 1300 : Their ruthless devil priests said it is for the glory 
of God (their purgatory gate-keeper mythology myth god, a devil) : 
and to slaughter men, women and children, would secure the salva- 
tion of the devils who murdered them, as so many tigers on de- 
fenseless sheep, with the demon joy of a black Tertullian lawyer 
devil. — Sismondis History of Crusades against Albigenses, Cap. ii., 
73-84. 

But the priests who taught eternal punishment fire tortures end- 
less were not content to begin it with simple murder of men, women, 
and children, but preceded it by the most horrible demon tortures 
and cruelties imaginable to devils, and rejoiced at their agonies like 
the black fiend Tertullian ; in their service of their demon god of 
endless fire tortures they worshiped, and imitated as far as they 
could ; full proof of the connection of hatred, faith, and practice, 
or the worshiper is like his god devil ; or, God righteous, good, 
merciful, love. The massacre of St. Bartholomew is another proof 
(with all the unnumbered thousands murdered yearly for one thou- 
sand two hundred and sixty years by the hell tortures of the Rom- 
ish inquisition) of the power of eternal torture creed faith 
hate, to convert man into a fiend. The ancient Roman theatre, 
with its momentary pangs, and shrieks, quite fades into nothing, 
in contrast to the Coliseum of papal inquisition cruelty, by which 



DAY THOUGHTS. 49 

myriads of innocent people were tortured and murdered by demon 
beasts, under the pagan mythology myth god devils angels, of tiger 
night light eyes, to seek innocent prey ; insane madness, endless hell 
fire and brimstone tortures ; delusion of fanatic fiends, who, by tra- 
ditions, have handed down to this age the Moloch hell creed, and 
horrid mockery and blasphemy of heaven's sovereign ruler of the 
universe, the God of love, of all who dwell in love ; o'er whom he 
presides as Father of spirits ; and supplies, with wisdom, knowledge, 
and understanding, intellects clothed with reason, and in their 
peaceful love minds, they, with childlike filial adoration, call him 
Father. While mocking hell fire torturers of the demon inquisition 
picture him as their_denion hate mythology myth god devil, of 
savage torture revenge endless, and mock as devils his resurrection 
of soul mind spirit-born children of God, new creatures in Christ ; 
by portraying him as a resurrector of dead rotten bodies, in part 
composed of dead swine, which God forbid his children to eat, and 
that he would roast the most of Adam's race, who. are as a dust on 
a balance, and less than nothing in value, and vanity shadows in 
endless fire and brimstone tortures, and keeping them alive in the 
flames of tortures infinite agony, merely to punish them for not 
becoming his children. 

While all were sinners Jesus died, 
Then saints should not sinners deride 5 
For such were they, when spirit life 
Awoke love, and ended hate strife. 

Endless hell fires for sinners dead, 
Agrees not with what Jesus said ; 
Love your enemies, for them pray, 
Not raise from death, to burn alway. 

Rom. v. 8 : God commendeth his love toward us, in that while 
we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. 

John iii. 5 : Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he 
cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 6 : That which is born 
of the flesh is flesh. 

Isa. xl. 6 : All flesh is grass. 7 : Surely the people is grass. 
15 : Behold the nations are as the drop of a bucket, and are counted 
as the small dust of the balance. 17 : All nations before God are 
as nothing, and are counted to him less than nothing and vanity. 
22 : The inhabitants of earth are as grasshoppers, 
c 5 



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Ps. ciii. 14 : God knoweth our frame ; he remembereth that we 
are dust. 

Ps. cxix. 119 : Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth 
like drops. 126 : It is time for thee, Lord, to work, for they 
(rotten body resurrectionists, and endless fire torture creed wor- 
shipers of blasphemous mockery of thy love and power) have 
made void of thy law. 

The Roman Catholic inquisition tortures of the dark ages pro- 
longed the blood life of their victims under the most excruciating 
agonies, so that the poor heretic (to their false demon creeds of 
devils) might endure the last degree of their revenge hate possible, 
to please their devil god of demon revenge, who would continue 
the tortures they thus hell begun, in endless hell fires and brim- 
stone ; when truthfully those they thus doomed were God's holy 
children, whom, like Christ, Roman soldiers murdered. The annals 
of pagan sacrifice murders of infants to Moloch fire death in Hinnom, 
hell, furnish but a faint emblem of the atrocities of the Romish 
inquisition, and their horrid tortures are less than a shadow of 
what (oh, Lord, can it be blindness so great, it is so in truth, 
even orthodox men creeds now teach the same !) their myth demon 
god like themselves will do ; they taught, and still teach, endless 
fire tortures, agonies endless of all the incorrigibly wicked. 

God is not lightning, but sunlight. 
The thunderbolt Christ bore from sight, 
And in blood life's death silent grave, 
Bore death from all souls he doth save. 

All souls unquickened, death retains, 
Temptation from devil remains ; 
God's sunlight on all earth life shines, 
Spirit-born love life God refines. 

— Eph. ii. 1. 

But this terrible influence of the inquisition tortures and endless 
hell-fire doctrines was not confined to the priests of this religion : 
the cruel and ferocious spirit of its unclean madness was diffused 
among all its believers, and its pestilential poisons of soul mind 
thoughts pervaded the whole life of the people, and thus tradition 
men-creeds false were handed down through the reformers, who 
only reformed inquisition tortures, but held the blood life body 
resurrections, and continued the same inquisition false demon God 



DAY THOUGHTS, 51 

of revenge hate, that would torture after blood life death the masses 
of the people of the earth, by resurrecting the incorrigibly wicked, 
and making their rotten bodies immortal salamanders, to endure 
life in flames of fire tortures eternally. I worship no such God. 
The God I worship has revealed himself to me, and I feel and 
know him to be as he declares himself. 

1 John iv. 16: God is love ; and he that dwelleth in love 
dwelleth in God, and God in him. 

Matt. xix. 17 : There is none good but one, that is God. 

1 John i. 5 : God is light, and in him is no darkness. 

Heb. xii. 29 : God is a consuming fire. And he consumes his 
foes in a moment. 

Num. xvi. 21, 45 : That I may consume them in a moment. 
Not torture in endless fire non-consuming. 

Acts x. 34 : God is no respecter of persons. 

John iii. 33 : God is true. 36 : He that believeth on the Son 
hath everlasting life ; and he that believeth not the Son shall not 
see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him. Left in death, and 
shall not see life. 

John iv. 24 : God is a Spirit ; and they that worship him must 
worship him in spirit and in truth. God is my salvation, refuge, 
strength, shield and defense. 

Ps. cxvi. 5 : God is merciful. 

Ps. xxxiv. 2 : My soul shall make her boast in the Lord ; the 
humble shall hear thereof and be glad. 8 : taste and see that 
the Lord is good. 

Ps. xcix. 9 : The Lord our God is holy. 

Ps. ciii. 8 : The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, 
and plenteous in mercy. 9 : Neither will he keep his anger for- 
ever. 

Ps. xxx. 5 : God's anger endureth but a moment ; in his favour 
is life. 

Ezek. xviii. 4, 20, 24, 27 : The soul that sinneth it shall die. 

Even the tenderest ties of innocence and affection, and the holi- 
est Christian relations of life, were crushed beneath the iron heel 
of religious zeal to please their popes, and church and state officials, 
of the inquisition tortures, and promulgators of endless hell-fire 
tortures, to please their father the devil, who was the god they 
worshiped. In Italy and Spain the inquisition had the strongest 
hold upon the people, whom the Roman priests fed with demoniac 
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fruits. — History of the Reformation in Spain, chap. 9. Llo- 
rentes History of the Inquisition, abridged, Philadelphia, 1843. 
D' Aubignes History. Buchanans Christian Researches, pp. 172— 
193. 

Spirit-born love life sees God's light 

Within their soul when they do right. 

God is love, all such feel and know, 

They endless torments never sow. 

Love never hates the fallen foe, 
Nor consigns them to endless woe. 
Hell-fire torments of endless pain 
Love ne'er metes out ; 'tis hate insane. 

The history of John Calvin, and Servetus, the same savage faith 
having the power, doing the same infernal work, showing the creed 
of endless hell-fire tortures of the wicked, does not produce God- 
like love, but demon hatred like the tare seed father the devil, who 
delights in earthly power, and torture misery of mortals. And 
the history of the Puritans, the Anglo-Saxons ( Congregation alists) 
of our own land ; the bloody scourge in the Eastern States falling 
upon the defenseless Quakers, who meekly suffered (showing the 
ancient Saxon pirates' disposition still lived in their descendants) ; 
the cry of agony of poor defenseless old mothers, called witches, 
were unheeded (ocular demonstrations of their endless hell-fire 
torture creed of the popish inquisition) ; death and its accom- 
paniments of endless torture was meted out to them as far as they 
could accomplish it, leaving the resurrection of the poor old woman, 
and endless tortures in hell-fire tortures after death, to their Egyp- 
tian mummy myth god of pagan mythology. Like the Aztecs of 
America, and the Norsemen of Europe, they partook of the unclean 
spirit demon inquisition ancestry, eternal endless hatred myth god 
devil deity, and suppose it a duty, and a most acceptable service 
when they have the power, they begin so far as this world admits 
the work of endless punishment torments, which their creed infers 
their unforgiving revenge hate God will make infinite and eudless 
in hell-fire tortures of the wicked after blood life death. 

Queen Mary of England (daughter of Catherine, the divorced 
wife, and of Henry VIII. , King of England, and pope-founder, and 
head of the English Church, or Episcopal Church) was right in 
burning Bishop Cranmer, John Rogers, and some hundred and 
seventy more tortured to death, during her reign. As Bishop 



DAY THOUGHTS. 53 

Burnet says, she defended her bloody persecutions by appealing to 
the supposed future example of the Deity : " As the souls of all 
heretics are hereafter to be eternally burning in hell-fire tortures, 
there can be nothing more proper than for me to imitate the 
divine vengeance by burning them on earth." This is legitimate 
and logical reasoning deductions, and exhibits the natural fruits of 
the doctrine of Ye shall not surely die, but live in endless fire 
tortures, Gen. iii. 4, 5. With power to inflict the tortures Mary 
gave ocular demonstrations of the torture fire hell creed of endless 
continued punishment. If then we would make mankind what 
they should be, we must begin with the object of their worship ; 
we see the effects of sin-lust worship. Gen. vi. 5 : Every imagi- 
nation of the thoughts of their hearts was only evil continually : 
thus the continual fire tortures are meted out to unbelievers by 
evil thoughts ; not love, goodness, and mercy, but revenges relent- 
less hate endless fire tortures punishment, too horrid to endure a 
day, even in contemplation of the agonies of pain, infinitely less, 
endless fire tortures. The spirit born holy child of God is full of 
love and peace ; no hatred, no malice, or revenge hatred abides in 
such a moment while they dwell in love, for God dwells in them, 
in his love nature infinite. 

To-day in paradise with me, 
From life's body pains ever free. 
Better far leave, and with Christ be 
Absent from body, Lord, in thee. 

At blood life death spirit born soar, 
And are with Christ forever more, 
First resurrection, spirit birth, 
Second when blood life dies on earth. 

God is love (1 John iv. 16). Therefore I know by experi- 
mental spirit birth, loves surroundings of God in me is ocular 
demonstration that accusing him of torturing the wicked, and 
keeping them alive in a lake of fire and brimstone tortures end- 
less, is a base devil slander falsehood creed of blasphemy of 
heaven's sovereign supreme, who I know experimentally is love, 
goodness, mercy, and source of every blessing to all that live ; 
and he is not a God of the dead, nor resurrector of rotten bodies. 
All such creeds are blasphemous mockery, slanders of the God I 
love and worship daily. We must throw all men creeds into the 

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fire, and consume them, not the mortals whose minds are blinded 
by them from their youth ; and thereby their second nature habit 
of evil carnal nature thoughts, like St. Paul's when he pursued 
the apostles of our Lord, to imprison, scourge, malign, and mur- 
der them. When before Ananias the blind men creed scales of 
superstitious false men creeds teachings fell. 

May it please the Lord to open the eyes of every preacher on 
earth, at this closing decade of the Gentile dispensation, and 
quite likely the eternal close of time's parenthesis probation life, 
between two eternities, past and future, endless like a ring ; and 
earth's dissolution by fire flood, and the grand opening of eter- 
nal life joys beatific, in which none of Adam's sin lust race can 
partake, but the spirit born of God. John iii. 5 ; 1 John v. 18 ; 
iii. 2, 10. 



God's rays of love beam forth alway, 
Like God's sunlight, no king can stay, 
Proud, like tall mountains capped with snow, 
Humble, like fertile plains below. 

Ever as babes the humble feel, 
Before the Lord humbly they kneel ; 
Their love o'erflows on all around, 
No endless hell-fires there abound. 

Love is the life blood of the spirit-born holy child of God. 
No others of Adam's race are immortal, nor can they be united 
by spirit, soul, mind, faith, belief of Scripture truths. They con- 
ceive love of God, and spirit birth's new creature life in Christ, and 
thereby partake of immortal life in the Deity Divinity alone. 

1 Tim. vi. 16 : God only hath immortality ; therefore no wicked 
unregenerate can be immortal in any form or place. 

The Incas or Peruvians worshiped the sun, as the source of 
light, of joy, and felicity in the Creator, and it attracted their 
principal homage ; they never stained their altars with human 
blood ; nor could they conceive that the beneficent Father, the 
sun, would be delighted with such horrid victims. Ireland's first 
settlers were sun-worshipers, and prosperous and happy ; but 
Roman Catholic popish inquisition tortures religion, and its pagan 
devil mythology, philosophy, myth god, that burned and tortured 
all the heretics to their falsehood men creeds, has reduced the 
opulent Irish sun-worshipers' descendants to vain superstitions of 



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popery and poverty and toil, who still adhere to the demon hate 
creed of endless torture punishment of their neighbors. 

Matt. vi. 15 : If ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither 
will your Father forgive your trespasses. 

Josephus says of the Jews (who followed priestcraft pagan 
men-creeds false, instead of the Scripture God of love and truth) : 
" I cannot say it without regret, but I must declare it as my opin- 
ion, that if the Romans had delayed to come against these wretches, 
the city (Jerusalem) would have been swallowed up by an earth- 
quake, or overwhelmed by a deluge, or else been consumed by 
lire from heaven, as Sodom (and Gomorrah) was; for it pro- 
duced a generation of men more wicked than those who had suf- 
fered such calamities." How absurd it would be to teach that after 
they were destroyed as too wicked to live on earth, that God 
would take such to heaven, making heaven into a storage of Satan's 
unclean tare children ; and more absurd still, that God would re- 
surrect to immortal life of fire tortures those he had destroyed. 

Proud D.D., cardinal, and pope, 
Like Nero rules with horoscope. 
Endless hells for the poor they find, 
For money all the rich unbind. 

Faith is the soul mind's eye of love, 
New creature life from God above, 
Faith brings immortal life and light, 
That quick disperses Satan's night. 

The falsity and absurdity of endless torture punishment creeds, 
and the utter uselessness of the terror system of pagan mythology, 
is plainly seen in the religion and morals of the Burmans. The 
Buddhists preach that mankind pass into other bodies of animals, 
birds, beasts, fishes or insects, from a higher to a lower grade, if 
wicked, until they reach hell, or a place of unmixed torment ; in 
cases of atrocious crime, as murder, they go direct to hell. The 
Burmans ought to be a very good and holy people, if the doctrine 
of endless punishment was efficacious in restraints from sin. But 
what are the facts ? Dr. Judson frankly confesses that this system 
of religion has no power over he heart, or restraint on the pas- 
sions. Dr. Wayland as frankly owns that it is found practically 
+o have created no barrier whatever against sin. The most ignor- 
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56 DAY THOUGHTS. 

use terror threats to subdue ; as tortures supernatural and dangers 
which they find, as they mature in years, are not fulfilled, and they 
are full of wild incoherent reasoning thoughts. 

While the law of Graudama, the deity, forbids to take the life 
of any animate being, the Burmans are bloodthirsty, cruel and 
vindictive, beyond most of the nations of India. Murders are of 
very common occurrence, and the punishment of death is in- 
flicted with scourging cruelty. While licentiousness is absolutely 
forbidden, they are said to be universally profligate. They are 
nearly all dishonest and deceitful. 

The sect of Sadducees, among the Jews, believed not in endless 
punishments and torments beyond blood life death, as did the wild 
heathen pagan priests of Egypt, and especially the mummy body 
resurrectionists, and from them merged by the philosophers of 
Greek and Roman mythologists, as one of their thousands of 
imaginary myth gods of endless war, upon the helpless, wicked 
dead bodies, which must have been only one of the little, insig- 
nificant worms, that dies not when the blood life of the mortal 
body dies ; and preys as vultures on the mortal's body in the 
grave, and consumes it, leaving but worm dung remains, which 
moulder with the lime bones back to dust remains : which they 
taught would be resurrected by the worm with Glod, and tortured 
if of the wicked on earth, in endless fire and brimstone tortures : 
for what, and for whose benefit or gratification, none tell. 

Love leaves unsaved sinners in death ; 
Proud hate would again give them breath, 
And thera eternal tortures give, 
What hellish gifts in fire to live. 

And themselves philanthropic call, 
Thus misers rich give bastards all, 
All hell fires they would give away, 
Will them consume in hell array. 

Thus desire wish is mother to the thoughts, and the fruitful 
imaginations of the heathen pagan idol worshipers of wooden 
images of mortal bodies merged their stock in priestcraft trade 
into mortal bodies dead, that they would resurrect, and the worm 
they magnified into a god of war revenge, and endless tortures of 
the poor, defenseless, helpless bodies, void of blood life powers ; 
their fallen, conquered foe, whom the worms had consumed. It is 
madness gone mad in insane revenge myth imaginations. 



DAY THOUGHTS. 57 

I was taught from childhood, by Christian parents and orthodox 
ministers, in Scripture truths, for which I feel grateful. But the 
pagan mummy rotten body, worm god mythology, merged in the 
men creeds of the various sects of religionists by traditions of men 
and their endless hell-fire tortures after blood life death, I find not 
taught in the Bible Scriptures of truth infallible ; but their myth 
imaginations wrested Scripture parables into the false heathen 
mummy theology. 

The Scriptures plainly teach that all Adam's race are sentenced 
to death irrevocable : Gen. ii. 17 ; iii. 19, 22, 24. Dust thou 
art, and unto dust shalt thou return. No reserves of any mortal 
bodies, or any other life quality. The soul is but as a nature 
female, and the mind intellect is as the female egg ; the spirit life 
immortal love of God, the male spirit seed of immortal life sown 
there, produces an immortal spirit life, new creatures : wholly 
disconnected at spirit birth, as a mother body blood life, emblem 
of the soul in spirit life beings, is disconnected from the child. 

Matt. xiii. 37, 38 : God in Christ's woman's seed love spirit, 
called as to woman's seed the son of man, sows the seed of im- 
mortal life spirit in believers of his gospel Scripture truths, which 
is spirit born : John iii. 5. Resurrected never to die. John xi. 
25, 26. And has the spirit of God, and Christ: Bom. viii. 9 ; 1 
Cor. xv. 23. A new creature in Christ : 2 Cor. v. 17. Abidin 
in Christ's spirit love : John xv. 5. A son of God. 1 John iii. 
1, 2 : child of God. 1 John iv. 16: God is love; and he that 
dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. 

1 John v. 18 : We know that whosoever is born of God 
sinneth not ; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and 
the wicked one toucheth him not. 19 : And we (spirit-born 
holy) know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in 
wickedness. 

Buchner, author of the History of Philosophy, says of the life of 
the Sadducees, it might be conjectured from the character of their 
doctrine (no future life fires of tortures, or body resurrections), 
that their life was bad, but we must pronounce otherwise of their 
morals, if we adhere to the testimony of the ancients. 

Josephus says the Sadducees are severe in judging, rigorous in 
punishing crimes. (Josephus was a Pharisee.) He says the Sad- 
ducees paid a stricter regard to justice than did the Pharisees. 
The Pharisees believe the doctrine of endless punishment, and the 
resurrection of rotten corruption bodies, the mummy doctrine they 

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learned of the Egyptian pagan priests ; and the Sadducees' deny- 
ing it clearly shows that the disbelief of endless punishment tor- 
tures beyond the grave does not make a man immoral, or wicked, 
nor the belief of such doctrines ; the Sadducees, whom their ene- 
mies acknowledge to be strictly just and moral, abundantly demon- 
strate. Of course, the belief of the Pharisees in body resurrec- 
tion and endless punishment tortures of the wicked, like their 
pagan brethren of Egyptian mummy embalming, and Grecian and 
Roman mythology philosophy, is highly approved of (except their 
32,000 gods) by the orthodox creeds of men traditions, therefore 
they ought to be great saints, without spot or blemish, and the 
Sadducees for not believing pagan myth god creeds of body flesh 
resurrections, and its endless tortures in hell-fire, great sinners ; 
but we have already seen that they were not. The Lord Jesus 
Christ, the judge of all the earth, solves this problem. 

Matt. v. 20 : Except your righteousness shall exceed the 
righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case 
enter into the kingdom of heaven. 

Matt, xxiii. 33 ; Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can 
ye escape the damnation (condemnation) of hell (the grave) ? 

John viii. 44 : Ye are of your father the devil. 45 : Because 
I tell you the truth, ye believe me not. This does not look like 
being very saintly. It is worthy of note in this connection, in all 
Christ's rebukes and denunciations of wickedness of the men of 
that -age and generation, the Saviour never includes the Sad- 
ducees. It is always scribes, Pharisees, hypocrites ; never scribes, 
Sadducees, hypocrites. This is strong presumptive proof of the 
morality of the Sadducees; and how beautiful and instructive 
the Saviour's explanation of the only resurrection from, not of 
the dead. Spiritual children of God resurrected from the earthy 
nature body shell, at blood life death. Luke xx. 35-38. And 
presumptive proof of the mockery wickedness of the Pharisees' 
body resurrection and endless pagan tortures of the wicked. 

It is nowhere asserted in the Scriptures that the incorrigibly 
wicked after blood life death, and close of time, have a life of 
any kind or form, or live in any place whatever. 

Rom. vi. 23 : For the wages of sin is death ; but the gift of 
God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Christ is the 
life, not Adamic blood life (John xi. 25). 

It is nowhere asserted in the Scriptures that we will rise again 
with blood life bodies. As well teach that the stalk, the blade, 



DAY THOUGHTS. 59 

and the cob, are the same things as the grain put in the ground. He 
cannot quote St. Paul that we shall rise again with the same bodies. 

Death of blood life sets Christians free, 
Spirit born love, Lord, soars to thee. 
Soul minds chrysalis egg shell breaks, 
Child of God in heaven awakes. 

Soul mind's new creature love is born, 
Of spirit love, Christ doth adorn, 
First resurrection, spirit love, 
Second soars from body above. 

1 Cor. xv. 37 : Thou so west not that body that shall be. 44: 
It is sown a natural body ; it is raised a spiritual body. 

Heb. xii. 9 : We have had fathers of our flesh which corrected 
us, and we gave them reverence ; shall we not much rather be in 
subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live ? 

The future body cannot be like the present one. 

1 Cor. xv. 50 : Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of 
God : neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. 

Rom. viii. 8 : So then they that are in the flesh cannot please 
God. That is truth, and the body resurrectionists' must be false 
creeds, and where would they go with the body that displeased 
God, and all of which he had sentenced to death dust ? Gen. iii. 
19, 22, 24 : And prevented from partaking of everlasting life. 

Rom. viii. 9 : But ye (spirit born holy children of God, spirit 
beings like him) are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if so be the 
Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit 
of Christ, he is none of his. 10: If Christ be in you, the body 
is dead because of sin (sentenced in Eden to death). But the 
spirit is life because of righteousness. 

1 Cor. xv. 41, 42 : One star differeth from another star in 
glory, so also is the resurrection of the dead. So that the spirit 
child of God, new creature in Christ (2 Cor. y. 17), is as different 
from the blood life nature body as the star is different from it. 

1 Cor. xv. 44 : The nature body and the spirit body are two 
distinct beings, distinct individual existences. St. Paul effectually 
precludes the Egyptian mummies from their pagan heathen priests' 
delusive dreams of the resurrection of their preserved brainless 
bodies. I think earth's fire flood will dispose of them all, without 
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it was a waste of time and money to preserve them ; they are 
composed of nature's products, and will perish with nature's dis- 
solution. 

2 Pet. iii. 10 : The day of the Lord will come as a thief in 
the night ; in which the heavens will pass away with a great 
noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth 
also and the works that are therein shall be burnt up. No re- 
serve of bodies. 



Soul egg minds Christ's love seed receive, 
Repentants Christ's words then believe, 
Then Holy Ghost quickens to life 
Children of God, free from sin's strife. 

As the blossom bud on the tree, 
First resurrection life in thee, 
And second when the fruit matures, 
Then heaven's angels it secures. 



Mai. iv. 1 : For behold the day cometh that shall burn as an 
oven ; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be 
stubble ; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the 
Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. 

Isa. v. 24 : Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the 
flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and 
their blossom shall go up as dust ; because they have cast away the 
law of the Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One 
of Israel. " I confess when I look upon a world of sufferers upon 
death-beds, and grave-yards, upon the world of woe, filled with 
hosts to suffer forever, when I see my parents, my family, my 
people, my fellow-citizens ; when I look upon a whole race involved 
in this sin and danger, and when I see the great mass of them 
wholly unconcerned [though thousands of preachers of hell fires 
endless tortures false prophets surround them], and I feel that God 
only can save them [God cannot against their will and unspirit- 
born], and yet he does not do it, I am struck dumb ; it is all dark, 
dark, dark, to my soul, and I cannot disguise it, why man must 
suffer to all eternity. I have never seen a particle of light thrown 
on these subjects that has given a moment's ease to my tortured 
mind." — Barnes s Practical Sermons, pp. 123-125. How plain 
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reading Shaw's Day Thoughts, Nature Parables. And faith 
which worketh by love (G-al. v. 6). 

Life immortal, is only promised to the righteous ; never to the 
wicked, in any form or place, is it to be found in the Holy Scripture 
truths. Nor does God's book of nature life show forth anything 
of the kind, but both teach ever the reverse ; death endless in 
utter annihilation is plainly taught of all mere natural life by every 
ailing leaf, blossom, and its fruit; all soon return to nature's lifeless 
inanimate elements. 

1 Tim. vi. 16 : God only hath immortality ; like begets its 
like, is God's law of the universe. Mortals cannot beget immortals. 

Gal. vi. 7, 8, 15 : Be not deceived. God is not mocked; for 
whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that 
soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption ; but he that 
soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. 

Gen. vii. 23 : Noah only remained alive, and they that were 
with him in the ark. 



Lilies toil not, nor do they spin, 
They grow from God's word life within. 
Solomon was not thus arrayed, 
As the white lily God's word made. 

If God so clothe the grass to-day, 
Which to-morrow consumes away, 
Ye of faith which worketh by love, 
Seek first God's kingdom from above. 



Rom. v. 8 : While we were yet sinners Christ died for us. 

Eph. ii. 1 : And you hath he quickened, who were dead in tres- 
passes and sins. 2 : Wherein in times past ye, according to the 
course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air 
(the devil death), the spirit that now worketh in the children of diso- 
bedience. 3 : And were by nature the children of wrath, even as 
others. 5 : Even when we were dead in sins, and hath quickened 
us together with Christ. 6 : And hath raised us up together. 

John xi. 25, 26 : Whosoever liveth (is spirit-born, iii. 5 ; quick- 
ened (Eph. ii. 1) from the dead), and believeth in me, shall never 
die. 

Rom. viii. 9 : But ye are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if 
so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have 

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not the spirit of Christ he is none of his. 6 : For to be carnally 
minded is death. 

Rom. v. 21 : That as sin hath reigned nnto death, even so might 
grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ 
our Lord. 

Rom. vi. 16 : His servants ye are to whom ye obey, whether of 
sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness. 23 : For the 
wages of sin is death ; but the gift of God is eternal life through 
Jesus Christ our Lord. Of whom or how can the wicked be immortal ? 

Mark ix. 48 : Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not 
quenched. 

Heb. xii. 29 : For our God is a consuming fire. (He is not 
quenched, nor is he anon-consuming fire, so that the wicked might 
live.) 

Isa. lxvi. 24 : And they shall go forth, and look upon the car- 
casses (rotten dead bodies) of the men that have transgressed 
against me ; for their worm shall not die (they die at blood life 
death). Neither shall their fire be quenched. 

Deut. iv. 24 : For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire. 

Num. xvi. 21 : That I may consume them in a moment. 45 : That 
I may consume them as in a moment. It does not take God eternally 
to consume the incorrigibly wicked. 

Job xix. 2 : How long will ye vex my soul? 26 : Though after 
my skin worms destroy this body, yet (before that occurs) in my 
flesh shall I see God. 

Job xlii. 1 : Then Job answered the Lord and said, 5 : I 
have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear ; but now mine eye 
seeth thee. 

Job xxi. 7: Wherefore do the wicked live? 11 : Their chil- 
dren dance. 18 : They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff 
that the storm carrieth away. Neither stubble or chaff hath any 
life whatever. 

Isa. v. 24; Mai. iv. 1; Matt. hi. 12: Moloch worshiper's worm 
dieth not. Gehenna. 

Isa. lxvi. 24 : For their worm shall not die. It is a notorious 
fact that numerous parasites do crawl over our surface, burrow be- 
neath our skin, nestle in our entrails, and riot and propagate their 
kind in every corner of our frame. Nearly a score of animals be- 
longing to the interior of the human body have been already dis- 
covered and described, and scarcely a tissue or an organ but is 
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domicile. One species of strongle chooses the heart for its dwell- 
ing-place, another inhabits the arteries, a third the kidneys. 
Myriads of minute worms lie coiled up in the voluntary muscles, 
or in the areolar tissues that connect the fleshy fibres. 

The soul that sinneth it shall die, 
Its worms still live, pagan creeds cry ; 
The Lord God formed man of the dust, 
In blood life pagan creeds still trust. 

The day thou eatest thou shalt die. 
Ye shall not die, serpents still cry. 
Dust thou art, and to dust return ; 
Thus worms in endless fires must bu. n. 

It seems a strange, as it is a somewhat humiliating fact, that 
the human body should furnish food and habitation for many of 
the inferior creatures, not only after death, but while it is yet 
alive. The parasitic animals which thus prey upon man have been 
much studied from time to time, and especially of late, in their re- 
lations to natural history. The guinea worm and the chigoe bore 
through the skin, and reside in the subjacent reticular membrane. 
A little fluke, in general appearance much like a miniature floun- 
der, lives, steeped in gall, in the biliary vessels. If you squeeze 
from the skin of your nose what is vulgarly called a maggot, — the 
contents, namely, of one of the hair follicles, — it is ten to one that 
you find in that small sebaceous cylinder several animalcules, ex- 
tremely minute, yet exhibiting under the microscope a curious and 
complicated structure. Even the eye has its living inmates. But 
it is in the alimentary tube that we are most apt to be plagued with 
these vermin worms of various species. Independently of minute 
scientific divisions into genera and species, there are some broad 
lines of distinction between these creatures. Thus some kinds of 
worms occupy, as I have said, the interior of our bodies ; these are 
called, accordingly, entozoa ; some dwell externally, and are named 
ectozoa, more properly perhaps epizoa. There are five sorts of in- 
testinal worms. 

Kxod. xvi. 20 : Some of the Jews left of the manna until the 
morning, and it bred worms, and stank. 19 : Moses said, Let no 
man leave of it till the morning. 23 : To-morrow is the rest of 
the holy sabbath unto the Lord ; lay up for you to keep until the 
morning. And it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein. 



64 DAY THOUGHTS. 

Job vii. 5 : My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust ; 
my skin is broken and become loathsome. 9 : As the cloud is con- 
sumed and vanisheth away, so he that goeth down to the grave 
shall come up no more. 21:1 shall not be (that is, the blood life 
body of nature, and the soul unspirit-born). 

Job xvii. 14 : I have said to corruption, thou art my father ; to 
the worm, thou art my mother and my sister. 16 ; xlii. 1, 5. 

Job xxi. 26 : They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the 
worms shall cover them. 

Job xxiv. 19 : Drought and heat consume the snow-waters ; so 
doth the grave those which have sinned. 20 : The worm shall 
feed sweetly on him. 

Job xxv. 6 : How much less man that is a worm, and the son 
of man which is a worm. 

Ps. xxii. 6 : But I am a worm, and no man ; a reproach of men, 
and despised of the people. Jesus dieth not. 

Isa. xli. 14 : Fear not, thou worm Jacob. 

Isa. li. 8 : The worm shall eat them like wool. 

Isa. lxvi. 24 : Their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire 
be quenched ; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh. 

Isa. xl. 6 : All flesh is grass. 

John xv. 1 : I (Christ) am the vine (spirit vine), and my 
Father is the (spirit love life immortal) husbandman. 4 : Abide 
in me, and I in you : as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, 
except it abide in the vine, no more can ye, except ye abide in 
me. 5 : I am the vine, ye are the branches : he that abideth in 
me and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit ; for with- 
out me ye can do nothing. 6 : If a man abide not in me, he is 
cast forth as a branch, and is withered ; and men gather dead 
branches and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. 

Though G-od doth principally and chiefly lead his spirit chil- 
dren by his spirit guidance, yet he sometimes conveys his spirit 
truth guidance love to them through his children, whom he inspires 
to speak or write. To apply physical tests in the spiritual order 
is as great folly as to test Newton's astronomy by steam power. 
Christ is the spirit love life immortal mediator (or medium) be- 
tween the immortal love life spirit Grod, and Father of all immor- 
tal spirit life beings : and all spirit born of their soul mind spirit 
eggs unquickened to life, and dead as to spirit life immortal 
being, as the animate nature life eggs, in the females of each 
species, and as the male life quickening seed, is the quickening 



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word of God love seed impartation to the she soul (Ps. xxxiv. 2 : 
My soul shall make her boast in the Lord : the humble shall hear 
thereof and be glad). Spirit egg minds of believers, who open 
their will doors through faith belief of gospel truths of God, which 
worketh by love (Gal. v. 6), and then receive, by way of Christ, 
the Lord, the Holy Ghost, the spirit light love word of the im- 
mortal life love of God, the Father of spirits, that live immortal 
life beings. Heb. xiii. 9 : And quickened into life. Eph. ii. 1 : 
And you hath Christ quickened, who were dead in trespasses and 
sins : without spirit love life's immortal quickening seed, sown by 
the Saviour. Matt. xiii. 37, 38 : And spirit birth. John iii. 5 : 
New creature in Christ. 2 Cor. v. 17 : The soul and mind perish 
with the heart blood's probation life germ : or like the she fowl's 
eggs undeveloped, when her blood life dies. 

Darwin's work on the Origin of Species says : "I had two 
distinct objects in view : first, to show that species had not been 
separately created ; secondly, that natural selection had been the 
chief agent of change." I say, separate creations are fully proved 
by ocular demonstrations of the fact, by the distinct species now 
extant on the earth, and each species producing only their own 
species from animate nature germ eggs in the females of each 
species, which nature life develops as the base body parts, in 
accordance with the design of the Creator in the first pair of each 
species ; which unquickened into life creatures by male seeds pro- 
duces no species whatever, and when quickened into life by male 
seed produces only such like species. Like begets its like, is 
God's fixed law of the universe. Nine-tenths, or more, of all the 
females' eggs of each species produce no life whatever ; emblem of 
the soul's mind spirit-eggs, which produce no spirit life, clean or 
unclean, unless quickened to life by a spirit being. 

Eph. ii. 1 : And you hath Christ quickened, who were dead in 
trespasses and sins. , 

Gen. ii. 17 : In the day that thou eatest of sin lust's forbidden 
fruit, thou shalt surely die. Thus Adam and Eve died a spiritual 
death when they partook of the forbidden fruit. Then follows 
their only promise of spirit life, through the mediation of the 
Saviour, who should bruise the serpent's head, in the minds of 
believers of God's revealed conditions of spirit birth from the 
soul's spirit egg minds : Gen. iii. 15. 

Then follows the sentence of death on all Adam and Eve's 
descendants, or blood life seed (19, . 

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Then their merciful prevention from immortal life being, in un- 
regenerate, or satanic unclean spirit tare seed soul mind develop- 
ment (22-24). Darwin deems it a great discovery and proof of his 
theory, that the embryos of man, dog, seal, reptile, etc., can at first 
hardly be distinguished from each other. It only proves the ad- 
mitted fact, that man by Adamic nature seed lusts in development 
is of the earth, and earthy. 1 Cor. xv. 48 : As is the earthy, such 
are they also that are earthy : and as is the (spirit beings) heavenly, 
such are they also that are heavenly : spirit born of the she soul's 
spirit begotten of God, from the soul's mind egg of spirit life ; 
dormant, until developed by faith which worketh by love (Gal. 
v. 6), and spirit begotten of God's spirit life immortal love seed, 
sown by Christ : Matt. xiii. 37, 38. 

Spirit begotten (1 John v. 18) of God. Spirit born : John iii. 
5 : Or he cannot enter into the spirit life eternal being, in the 
spirit kingdom of God. 

Darwin, instead of proving by ocular demonstration that man has 
had animal progenitors, takes it for granted, because the myth idea 
came into his mind, the same way the pagan myth priests 
of Egypt, some fifteen centuries before the Christian era, taught 
the doctrine of the resurrection of the mortal man's dead body, if 
it could be embalmed so as not to see corruption ; thus the intro- 
duction of the Egyptian mummy creed doctrines of men began ; 
more sensible than the fallible Pope of Rome, whose myth mind 
creed of resurrection of the ashes of the heretics his inquisition 
hell-fire torturers burned at the stake, for disbelieving their myth 
paganism men creeds false : and their pagan myth god they pictured 
as a devil full of endless anger that would aid their cause, by again 
resurrecting the heretic's dead body remains, and manufacturing 
them into fire salamanders, to torture and burn ad infinitum : they 
gave ocular demonstration that the human flesh and blood life body 
would not live in the fire : and if in like bodies resurrected from 
their dead rotten, or burned to ashes, body, and put into a lake of 
fire and brimstone, like results of course would follow, as their first 
burning ; and they would soon be dead, and only a few ashes dust 
remains would be the result of the second burning ; and for whose 
benefit, or for what purpose of justice, like Darwin, they proclaim 
in men tradition creed doctrines the bare irrational myth assertion, 
without one ocular proof, or sensible deduction : and the burning 
a flesh body eternally is an utter absurdity, and contradicts all 
ocular tests of bodies put in fires, or accidentally burned. 



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Does the rotting of the dead human body, and its passing back 
to its original nature gases and elements, change it from the vege- 
tation and animate life bodies eaten by man, into a fire salamander 
quality ; or is it only myth creed madness dreamed ? The death 
penalty of body of all Adam's race of sin lust seed (Ps. li. 5) reap : 
and the death of souls of all that repent not of their sins ; God's 
prophet Ezekiel (xviii. 4, 20, 24) declares (27) when the wicked 
man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and 
doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive. 
28 : He shall not die : the second, or soul death : First death is of 
the .... blood life : and no soul minds have life of nature birth. 

Some men creeds teach that their God's breath is in the souls of 
Adam's sin lust race by nature birth, and thereby the soul is im- 
mortal, and shall burn in hell fire and brimstone tortures eternally, 
if unsaved by grace : thus their pagan mummy god, myth of Dar- 
winian order, is to eternally burn himself. Mythy imaginations, 
insane god of mythologous thousands, far better their altar to their 
truthful unknown God (Acts xvii. 23-28). If the selfish mortal, 
who is not content with the endless death, that has no life resur- 
rector of the incorrigibly wicked : or the punishment of all crimi- 
nals, the devil's children of his tare seed, unclean spirits that live 
with their unclean spirit devil their father, seeking rest and finding 
none (Matt. xii. 43), until infinite mercy of God destroys them with 
the world, on the last judgment day (Matt. xiii. 38, 42). If the 
f dse man creed worshiper finds himself condemned, it is all right. 
Glory to God, whose mercy endureth forever. 

Ps. c. 5 : For the Lord is good : his mercy is everlasting. 

Ps. xxx. 5 : For God's anger endureth but a moment : in his favor 
is life. But if his wicked neighbors are condemned to death, and 
he exalted to heaven, he would have them placed in a lake of fire 
and brimstone, and tortured eternally. What a love for thy neigh- 
bor ! 

Matt. xxii. 39 : Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. All 
who cannot be contented with heaven (unless God raises soul mind 
egg beings to a life of endless torture ; who never have had a spirit 
life being : like raising chickens from unquickened or rotten eggs) 
have no love spirit life goodness in themselves, that partakes of 
God's immortal life of love, pure and holy ; that leaves in death's 
endless sleep, at time's close, all who partake not of Christ's love 
spirit and life resurrection : for Christ is the resurrection and life 
of believers only when spirit born children of God : not of dead 



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corruption bodies, nor of the incorrigibly wicked, they have no 
resurrector. 

Isa. v. 24 : Their root shall be as rottenness : and their blossom 
(of immortal life) shall go up as dust. 

Roman Catholics took from Greek and Roman mythology, and 
pagan Egyptian mummy priests, their inquisition torture creed of 
purgatory fires endless. And Martin Luther learned the creed in 
childhood, and as a Roman Catholic monk and priest, cure of souls : 
John Calvin, also a Roman Catholic priest ; Henry VIII., defender 
of Roman Catholic faith, pope of English Church ; source of 
creeds of hell fire, of body resurrection, good and bad of most 
churches, is Roman Catholic creeds, now extant. 



The day thou eatest thou shalt die, 
God's law, which men creeds now decry. 
The Lord God formed man of the dust, 
Adam's sin race, begot of lust. 

And unto dust shalt thou return, 
Dust thou art men creeds also spurn, 
Serpent said, ye shall not sure die, 
Sinners live in hell fires, popes cry. 

WHO ARE IN HELL, AND WHAT HELL IS DESCRIBED TO BE. 

Deut. xxxii. 22 : For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall 
burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her 
increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains. 24 : 
They shall be devoured with burning heat, and with bitter de- 
struction. 25 : The sword without, and terror within, shall 
destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also, 
with the man of gray hairs. 

2 Sam. xxii. 6 ; Ps. xviii. 5 : The sorrows of hell compassed 
me about : the snares of death prevented me. 

Ps. ix. 17 : The wicked shall be turned into hell (the grave). 
And all the nations that forget G-od. 

Ps. xvi. 10 : For thou (G-od) wilt not leave my soul in hell ; 
neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One (Jesus) to see corruption. 
David's body saw corruption as all others do. 

Ps. lv. 15 : Let death seize upon them, and let them go down 
quick into hell, the grave. 

Ps. cxvi. 3 : The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains 



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of hell got hold upon me. 4 : Then called I upon the Lord. 8 : 
Thou hast delivered my soul from death. 

Ps. cxxxix. 8 : If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there. If 
I make my bed in hell, behold (Jesus holy), thou art there. 

Prov. v. 5 : Her feet go down to death (lost to virtue), her 
steps take hold on hell. 

Prov. vii. 27 : Her house is the way to hell, going down to the 
chambers of death. 

Prov. ix. 18 : The dead are there ; her guests are in the depths 
of hell. 

Prov. xv. 11 : Hell and destruction are before the Lord. How 
much more the hearts of the children of men. 24: The way of 
life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell (earth) 
beneath. 

Prov. xxiii. 14 : Thou shalt beat him with a rod, and shalt 
deliver his soul from hell. (Prov. xxvii. 20.) 

Isa. v. 14 : Hell hath enlarged herself. 24 : Therefore as the 
fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so 
their root shall be as rottenness. 

Isa. xiv. 9 : Hell from beneath is moved to meet thee ; it stir- 
reth up the dead for thee. 15. 

Isa. xxviii. 15, 18 : Your agreement with hell shall not stand ; 
when the scourge, etc. 

Isa. lvii. 9 : And . didst debase thyself even unto hell. (Job 
xi. 8 ; xxvi. 6.) 

Ezek. xxxi. 16:1 cast him down to hell with them that de- 
scend into the pit. 17 : They also went down into hell with him, 
unto them that be slain with the sword. 

Ezek. xxxii. 21 : The strong shall speak to him out of the 
midst of hell with them that help him : slain by the sword. 22, 
23 (hell ; graves) (war, is fire and brimstone hells), 27 : Which 
are gone down to hell with their weapons of war. (Amos ix. 

2-) 

Jonah ii. 2 : Out of the belly of hell (fish), cried Jonah. 

Hab. ii. 5 : His desire is hell, and is as death. 

Matt. iii. 12 : Jesus Christ will burn up the chaff with un- 
quenchable fire. (Isa. v. 24.) 

Luke iii. 17 : Will gather the wheat (righteous) into his gar- 
ner ; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable. 

Heb. xii. 29 : For our God is a consuming fire (unquenchable). 
(Deut. iv. 24; Mai. iv. 1.) 



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Egyptian mummy bodies burn, 
"When time shall close their souls return ; 
Earth's fire flood then will rebels end, 
Satan and hosts kingdom will rend. 

Hell fire and brimstone earth consumes, 
All sinners then on earth fire dooms, 
Hell fire enough for all hell's hosts, 
It soon consumes, death ends hell's boasts. 

WHO, IF ANY ONE, LIVES IN THE HELL EIRE ONE MOMENT. 

Num. xvi. 21 : That I may consume them in a moment. 

Matt. v. 22 : Whosoever shall say thou fool shall be in danger 
of hell fire. (A nicknamer.) 29 : If thy right eye offend thee 
pluck it out, and cast it from thee ; for it is profitable for thee 
that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole 
body should be cast into hell. 30 : If thy right hand, ditto, and 
not that thy whole body should be cast into hell, not alive. 

Matt. x. 28 : Fear him which is able to destroy (annihilate) 
both soul and body in hell, the grave. 

Matt. xi. 23 : And thou, Capernaum (a city) exalted, shalt be 
brought down to hell. 

Matt, xxiii. 15 : Ye make proselytes two-fold more the child 
of hell than yourselves. 33 : Ye serpents, ye generation of 
vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell ? 

Mark ix. 42 : Better drowned in the sea than to offend God's 
children. 43, 48 : Similar to Matthew. 

Luke x. 15 : And thou, Capernaum, shalt be thrust down to 
hell. (xvi. 19-31.) 

Acts ii. 31 : Spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul 
was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption. 

James iii. 6 : The tongue setteth on fire the course of nature, 
and is set on fire of hell. 

2 Pet. ii. 4 : If God spared not the angels that sinned, but 
cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of dark- 
ness, to be reserved unto judgment. 5 : And spared not the old 
world, but saved Noah, etc. 6 : Turning Sodom and Gromorrah 
into ashes, making them an ensample unto those that after should 
live ungodly. 

Rev. i. 18 : I am he that liveth, and have the keys of hell and 
of death. (Not Peter, or the pope, but Jesus.) 

Ptev. vi. 8 : And his name was Death, aud hell followed with 



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him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of 
the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, 
and with the beasts of the earth. 

Rev. xx. 13 : And the sea gave up the dead in it, and death 
and hell (earth) delivered up the dead which were in them ; and 
the dead (12) were judged. (Not raised to life, but) 14 : 
And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. (Not to bring 
the dead to life.) This is the second death. 1st. Blood life 
body death : Gen. iii. 19. 2d. Soul death : Ezek. xviii. 4. 15 : 
And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was 
cast into the lake of fire. Earth's fire-flood: 2 Pet. iii. 10. 

Rev. xxi. 8 : Murderers and all liars have their part in the lake 
which burnetii with fire and brimstone : which is the second 
death. 

Ezek. xviii. 4 : The soul that sinneth it shall die. No life for 
the wicked there. 

There is no promise of life of any kind, nor in any place, to the 
wicked, but death, annihilation, chaos night endless : and of earth 
matter, or nature life light. John, the beloved apostle, records 
not the eye and hand parable of Matthew and Mark additional, 
If thy foot offend thee (not God, but the owner of the foot is 
offended, and if he does not cut off his foot, is endangered of losing 
his life in unquenchable fire, etc.). And St. Luke, Paul, nor 
Peter, nor James, nor any other apostle, tells of such eye, hand, 
and foot hell fire and brimstone. It is all parabolic to save the 
body from death : diseased foot to be severed. 

ADAM SENTENCED TO DEATH, AND ALL HIS RACE. 

Gen. ii. 17 : In the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely 
die. 

Gen. iii. 19 (first judgment day) : For dust thou (Adam) art, 
and unto dust shalt thou return. 22 : Lest he . . . take also of the 
tree of life, and eat and live forever. 24 : So he drove out the 
man : God placed ... a flaming sword ... to keep the way of the 
tree of life. 

Ezek. iii. 18 : Nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked 
way, to save his life. He shall die in his iniquity ; but his blood 
will I require at thy hand. 21 : And the righteous man doth 
not sin, he shall surely live. Thou hast delivered thy soul. 

Ps. xlix. 12 : Man . . . abideth not : he is like the beasts that 



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perish. 14 : Death shall feed on thein. 20 : (They shall never 
see light) Man that . . . understandeth not is like the beasts that 
perish. 

Ps. lxxiii. 4 : No bands in their death (the wicked). 17 : 
Then understood I their end. 

Prov. xiv. 32 : The wicked is driven away in his wickedness : 
but the righteous hath hope in his death. 

John viii. 51 : If a man keep Christ's saying (commands) he 
shall never see death. 

Rom. vi. 16 : Whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his 
servants ye are, whether of sin unto death, or obedience unto 
righteousness. 21 : For the end of those things is death. 23 : 
For the wages of sin is death. 

Rom. viii. 6 : For to be carnally minded is death. Spiritually 
minded is life. 

1 Cor. xv. 56 : The sting of death is sin (Heb. ii. 14). 

2 Cor. ii. 16 : To the wicked saints are the savour of death 
unto death ; and to saints ... of life unto life. 

1 John iii. 14 : God's children know that they have passed from 
death unto life, because they love the brethren. He that loveth 
not . . . abideth in death. 

Rev. xx. 14 : Death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. 
This is the second death, soul death, no life is there. 

Rev. xxi. 8 : Lake which burneth with fire and brimstone : which 
is the second death. Not life, or living there, as falsely taught. 

Num. xvi. 21 : That I may consume them in a moment. No 
wicked could live there beyond a moment. 

Ps. lvi. 12 : Thy vows are upon me, God. 13 : For thou 
hast delivered my soul from death. 

Job xiv. 1 : Man that is born of a woman is of few days and 
full of trouble. 2 : He fleeth as a shadow, and continueth not. 

Job xxxvi. 6 : God preserveth not the life of the wicked. 

Gen. vi. 17 : Everything that is in the earth shall die. No life 
left in the grave. 

2 Chron. xxv. 4 : Every man shall die for his own sin. 

Ps. civ. 29 : God takes away their breath ; they die, and return 
to their dust. 

Eccles. iii. 19 : Man hath no pre-eminence above a beast. 20 : 
All turn to dust again. 

Eccl. ix. 5 : The living know that they shall die ; but the dead 
know not anything. 



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Jer. xvi. 4 : They shall be as dang upon the face of the earth. 

Ezek. xviii. 4 : The soul that sinneth, it shall die. 27 : When 
the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness, and doeth that 
which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive. 

In the Bible I find no life of any kind for unrepentants, in 
any place, beyond time's close. 

PROMISE OF LIFE AND ON WHAT CONDITIONS, AND TO WHOM. 

Lev. xvii. 11 : The life of the flesh is in the blood ; and I give 
it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls : for 
it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul. 

Deut. xxx. 15 : See, I have set before thee this day life and 
good, and death and evil. 19: I call heaven and earth to record 
this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, 
blessing and cursing. 

Deut. xxxii. 47 : It is not a vain thing for you ; because it is 
your life. 

Job xxxvi. 6 : God preserveth not the life of the wicked. 

Ps. xxi. 4 : David asked life of the Lord, and he gave it for- 
ever and ever. 8 : God . . . shall find out those that hate thee. 
9 : And the fire shall devour them. 

Ps. xxx. 5 : God's anger endureth but a moment; in his favor 
is life. 

Ps. xxxvi. 9 : With God is the fountain of life : in thy light 
shall we see light. 

Ps. lxvi. 9 : God holdeth our soul in life (when his light with- 
draws death ensues). 

Ps. lxxviii. 50 : God spared not their soul from death, but gave 
their life over to the pestilence. 

Ps. cxxxiii. 3 : Blessing even life for evermore. 

Prov. xxi. 21 : Righteousness and mercy findeth life. Not fire 
and brimstone preachers. 

Jer. xxi. 8 : I set before you the way of life, and the way of 
death. 

Matt. xix. 17 : If thou wilt enter into life, keep the command- 
ments, Jesus said. 

John i. 4 : In Christ was life ; and the life was the light of men. 

John iii. 36 : He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting 
life ; and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life ; but the 
wrath of God abideth on him. 



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John v. 29 : They that have done good to the resurrection of 
life ; evil condemned to death. 40 : Ye (wicked) will not come 
to me (Christ), that ye might have life. 

John vi. 63 : It is the spirit that quickeneth ; the flesh profiteth 
nothing : the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and 
they are life (33, 35, 51, 53). 

John viii. 12:1 (Jesus) am the light of the world .... the 
light of life. 

John xi. 25 : Jesus said, I am the resurrection and the life. 
26 : (Spirit born believers) never die. 

John xx. 31 : Believing ye might have life through Christ's 
name. 

Acts ii. 28 : Thou hast made known to me the ways of life. 

Acts xvii. 25 : God giveth to all life, and breath, and all things. 
28 : For in him we live, and move, and have our being. 

Rom. viii. 6 : For to be carnally minded is death ; but to be 
spiritually minded is life and peace. 10 : And if Christ be in 
you, the body is dead because of sin ; but the spirit is life, because 
of righteousness. 

I can find no life in the Scriptures, beyond time's close, for the 
wicked in any place. 

Christ spirit begotten blood saves 
Souls from their sins, who death enslaves ; 
God love, through Christ, seeking souls gives 
Everlasting life, whose love lives. 

Everlasting life saints receives, 

When blood life dies, who Christ believes ; 

Wicked at blood life death lose all, 

No life can they ever recall. 

PROMISE OP EVERLASTING LIFE, AND TO WHOM. 

Dan. xii. 2 : Many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth 
(Gen. ii. 7 : And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the 
ground) shall awake (Eph. ii. 1 : And you hath he quickened, 
who were dead in trespasses and sins) some to everlasting life, 
and some to shame and everlasting contempt. Jews are, and 
have been awake many centuries to shame and contempt (Isa. v. 
24). Therefore . . . their root shall be as rottenness (Gal. vi. 
7, 8, 15). 

Matt. xix. 29 : Every one that hath forsaken houses, or breth- 



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ren, or sisters, or father, or mother, etc., for my name's sake, shall 
inherit everlasting life. 

Luke xviii. 30 : In the world to come life everlasting. The 
same class. 

John iii. 16: For God so loved the woild, that he gave his 
only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not 
perish, but have everlasting life. 

John iv. 14 : Whosoever drinketh of the water (Holy Spirit 
love life) that I shall give him .... shall be in him a well of 
water springing up into everlasting life. 

John v. 24 : He that heareth my word, and believeth on him 
that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into con- 
demnation ; but is passed from death unto life ! First resurrection. 

John vi. 27 : Labor not for the meat which perisheth ; but for 
that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of 
man shall give unto you. 40 : Every one which seeth the Son, 
and believeth on him, may have everlasting life ; and I will raise 
him up at the last day (of blood life). 47 : He that believeth on 
me hath everlasting life (48, 49, 50). 

John xii. 50 : I know that God's commandment is life everlast- 
ing: 49. 

Acts xiii. 46 : Seeing ye (Jews, the rich man's brethren) judge 
yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles 
(the poor man). 

Rom. vi. 22 : Being made free from sin, and become servants 
of God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. 

Gal. vi. 8 : He that soweth to the spirit shall of the spirit 
reap life everlasting. He that soweth to his flesh shall of the 
flesh reap corruption. 

1 Tim. i. 16. Jesus Christ might show forth .... to them 
which should hereafter believe on him to everlasting life. 

ENDLESS. 

Heb. vii. 16 : After the power of an endless life, not after the 
law of a carnal commandment. 

Still no life beyond time's close for the incorrigibly wicked in 
any place. 

PROMISE OF ETERNAL LIFE, AND TO WHOM. 

Matt. xix. 16 : Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that 
I may have eternal life ? 



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Matt. xxv. 46 : These shall go away into (it does not say they 
shall live there a moment) everlasting punishment (a punish- 
ment of endless death, never to return to life; like the murderer 
hung by the neck until dead, never returns to life, thus is death 
everlasting) ; but the righteous into eternal life. 

Mark x. 30 : (Righteous) shall receive in the world to come 
eternal life. 

Luke x. 25 : Master, what shall 1 do to inherit eternal life ? 
(Keep God's commands.) 

Luke xviii. 18 : Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal 
life? (Keep God's commands.) 

John iii. 15 : That whosoever believeth in Christ should not 
perish, but have eternal life. 

John iv. 36 : He that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth 
fruit unto eternal life. 

John v. 39 : Search the Scriptures ; for in them ye think ye 
have eternal life ; and they are which testify of me. 40 : And 
ye will not come to me, that ye might have life. (Where can 
they get it ? man creed of life of endless fire torture.) 

John vi. 54 : Whoso eateth my flesh (50 : spirit life, eternal 
bread from heaven), and drinketh my blood (spirit love of God, 
immortal spirit life drink of spirits, that overflows in love to God, 
and all others worthy of it, by endless expansion) hath eternal 
life ; and I will raise him up at the last day. 68 : To whom shall 
we go ? Thou (Christ Jesus Lord) hast the words of eternal life. 

John x. 28 : I (Jesus) give unto them eternal life. 

John xii. 25 : He that loveth his (blood) life shall lose it (it 
soon dies), and he that hateth his life in this world (less than he 
does spiritual eternal life) shall keep it (spirit love spirit birth 
life) unto life eternal. 

John xvii. 2, 3 : As God has given his spirit word Son power 
over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou 
hast given him (1 Tim. vi. 16: God only hath immortality, 
which he only can give. Heb. xii. 9 : He is the Father of all 
spirits holy and immortal). And this is life eternal, that they 
might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou 
hast sent (God's messenger to fulfill his law). 

Acts xiii. 48: And as many as were ordained to eternal life 
believed. 

Rom. ii. 7 : To them who seek for glory and immort ility, 
eternal life. 



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Rom. v. 21 : So might grace reign through righteousness unto 
eternal life by the Lord. 

Rom. vi. 23 : For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of 
God is eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord. 

1 Tim. vi. 12 ; Titus i. 2; iii. 7 ; 1 John i. 2 ; ii. 25 ; iii. 15 ; 
v. 11, 13, 20 ; Jude 21 : All to the righteous. 

But no life beyond time's close of any kind, or in any place, for 
the incorrigibly wicked. 

God only hath immortality, 
And his spirit-born children free ; 
Christ brought immortality to light, 
And sows spirit seed love delight. 

God's word, Depart! seals sinners' doom, 
All out of Christ fire floods consume, 
Christ is earth's only ark, safe, sure, 
To all who to life's end endure. 

AT TIME'S CLOSE, THE ANNIHILATION OF ALL INCORRIGIBLY 
WICKED VS. IMMORTAL LIFE OP THE RIGHTEOUS. 

2 Cor. iii. 17 : Now the Lord is that spirit ; and where the 
spirit of the Lord is there is liberty. 

1 John iv. 1 6 : God is love ; and he that dwelleth in love dwell- 
eth in God, and God in him. 20 : If a man say, I love God, and 
hateth his brother, he is a liar. Now I am by spirit birth regen- 
eration a child of God. 

1 John iii. 10 ; v. 18 : We know that whosoever is born of God 
sinneth not ; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and 
the wicked one toucheth him not. Scripture must be interpreted 
by Scripture. 

1 Cor. ii. 12 : Now we have received not the spirit of the world, 
but the spirit which is of God ; that we might know the things 
that are freely given to us of God. 13 : Which things also we 
speak, not in the words which men's wisdom teacheth, but which 
the Holy Ghost teacheth ; comparing spiritual things with spirit- 
ual. 14 : But the natural man receiveth not the things of the 
spirit of God ; for they are foolishness unto him ; neither can he 
know them because they are spiritually discerned. 15 : But he 
that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no 
man. 16 : We have the mind of Christ. Rom. viii. 9. 

Ps. Ii. 5 : Behold, I was shapen in iniquity ; and in sin did my 
mother conceive me. 



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John iv. 24 : God is a Spirit ; and they that worship him must 
worship him in spirit and in truth. 

John iii. 5 : Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, 
he cannot enter into the kingdom of God (immortal spirit life). 

1 Cor. xv. 50 : Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of 
God ; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. 

John iii. 6 : That which is born of the flesh is flesh ; and that 
which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 

John vi. 63 : The flesh profiteth nothing. 

Gen. ii. 7 : And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the 
ground. 16 : And the Lord God commanded the man. 17 : Of 
the tree of knowledge of good and evil (God and mammon, 
righteousness and sin), thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day 
that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. 

Gen. iii. (4 : And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not 
surely die) 19 : In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till 
thou return unto the ground ; for out of it thou wast taken ; for 
dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. 22 : Lest Adam 
put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and 
live forever. 23, 24 : So God drove out the man, and placed a 
flaming sword to keep the way of the tree of life. 

Gen. vi. 3 : And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive 
with man, for that he also is flesh ; yet his days shall be one hun- 
dred and twenty years. 7 : And the Lord said, I will destroy 
(annihilate) man whom I have created. 

Birds raise their heads and look above, 
When they drink water sent by love, 
Their little mind thus soars away, 
To God, whose sun lights up their day'. 

Lightly come, and as lightly go, 
Nature's loves effervescent flow, 
Earth lives do quickly change their mind, 
Which is as fickle as the wind. 



SPIRIT BORN IMMORTAL LIFE OF GOD S CHILDREN. 

1 Tim. i. 17 : Unto the king eternal, immortal, invisible, the 
only wise God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen. 

1 Tim. vi. 16: God only hath immortality, dwelling in the light 
which no man can approach unto. 



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2 Thn. i. 10: But is now made manifest by the appearing of 
our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death (put an end 
to his dominion over spirit born holy believers), and hath brought 
life and immortality to light through the gospel. 

Rom. ii. 7 : To them who by patient continuance in well doing 
seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life. 

1 Cor. xv. 53 : This corruptible must put on incorruption, and 
this mortal must put on immortality (spirit-birth : John iii. 5 : 
incorruption), new creature in Christ : 2 Cor. v. 17 : immortality. 

Rom. viii. 9 : Ye are not in the flesh (corruptible), but in the 
spirit, if so be the spirit of God (immortality) dwell in you. Now 
if any man have not the spirit of Christ, he is none of his. 

1 Cor. xv. 54 : When this corruptible (flesh and blood : 50) 
shall have put on incorruption (Christ: John xv. 5), and this 
mortal (Adamic blood life nature) shall have put on immortality 
(the spirit of God: Rom. viii. 9 ; 1 John v. 18 : begot and born 
of God), then death is swallowed up in victory. 55 : death, 
where is thy sting ? grave, where is thy victory ? Such spirit- 
born sons of God sing ; but not the wicked dead who remain in 
the death grave. 

CHILDREN OF GOD. 

Matt. v. 9 : Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be 
called the children of God. 

Luke xx. 35 : They which shall be accounted worthy to obtain 
that world, and the resurrection from the dead. 36 : Neither can 
they die any more ; for they are equal unto the angels, and are 
the children of God, being the children of the resurrection. 

John xi. 25 : Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection and 
the life ; he that believeth in me, though he were dead (Eph. ii. 1 : 
And you hath Christ quickened, who were dead in trespasses and 
sins), yet shall he live. 26 : And whosoever liveth (is quickened, 
Eph. ii. 1 ; spirit-born, John iii. 5 ; new creature in Christ, 2 
Cor. v. 17 ; Gal. vi. 7, 8, 15) and believeth in me shall never die, 
is then resurrected from spirit soul mind death when he believes, 
and is spirit-born of God's spirit love life immortal, from seed 
sown (Matt. xiii. 37, 38 ; John xi. 52). Gather together in one 
the children of God (in Christ, John xv. 5). 

Rom. viii. 16 : The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, 
that we are the children of God. 21 : Because the creature itself 



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also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the 
glorious liberty of the children of God. 

Rom. ix. 8 : They which are the children of the flesh, these 
are not the children of God ; but the children of the promise are 
counted for the seed. 21 : One vessel unto honor, and another 
unto dishonor. 22 : Vessels of wrath (as Pharaoh) fitted to de- 
struction. 26: Where it was said unto them (the Gentiles), Ye 
are not my people, there shall they (who are spirit-born of God 
in Christ) be called the children of the living God. 

Gal. iii. 26 : For ye are all the children of God, by faith in 
Christ Jesus. 

1 John iii. 10 : In this the children of God are manifest, and 
the children of the devil. Whosoever doeth not righteousness is 
not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother. 

1 John v. 2 : By this we know that we love the children of 
God, when we love God and keep his commandments. 



SONS OF GOD. 

Gen. vi. 2 : Sons of God saw the daughters of men that they 
were fair. Job i. 6 : Sons of God came to present themselves be- 
fore the Lord. 

Job xxxviii. 7 : And all the sons of God shouted for joy. 

Hos. i. 10 : Ye are the sons of the living God. 

John i. 12 : But as many as received Christ, to them gave he 
power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on 
his name. 

Rom. viii. 14 : For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, 
they are the sons of God. 19 : The creature waiteth for the 
manifestation of the sons of God. 

Phil. ii. 15 : Blameless and harmless, the sons of God, ... as 
lights in the world. 

1 John iii. 1 : Behold what manner of love the Father hath 
bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God. 2 : 
Beloved, now are we the sons of God. 

BORN AGAIN. 

John iii. 3 : Jesus said . . . Except a man be born again 
he cannot see the kingdom of God. 5 : Except a man be born of 
water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 



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7 : Ye must be born again. 6 : That which is born of the flesh is 
flesh (Isa. xl. 6, 7 : All flesh is grass). And that which is born 
of the Spirit (iv. 24 : God is a Spirit) is spirit. 

1 Pet. i. 23 : Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of 
incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for- 
ever. 24 : For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the 
flower of grass. 

Job xi. 12 : Vain man would be wise, though man be born like 
the wild ass's colt. 

Isa. ix. 6 : Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, the 
Prince of Peace. 

1 Pet. i. 23 : Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of 
incorruptible (spirit soul seed), by the word of God. 



BORN OF GOD. 

John i. 12 : But as many as received Christ, to them gave he 
power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his 
name. 13 : Which were born not of blood, nor of the will of the 
flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. 

1 John iii. 9. Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin ; 
for his seed remaineth in him : and he cannot sin, because he is 
born of God. 6 : Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not : who- 
soever sinneth hath not seen him neither known him. 8 : He that 
committeth sin is of the devil. 

1 John iv. 7 : Love is of God ; and every one that loveth (God 
and their neighbor, not self) is born of God, and knoweth God. 
8 : He that loveth not, knoweth not God; for God is love. 16 : 
God is love ; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and 
God dwelleth in him (Rom. viii. 9). 

1 John v. 1 : Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is 
born of God. 4 : Whosoever is born of God overcometh the 
world. 18 : We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; 
but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked 
one toucheth him not. 

1 John i. 7 : The blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanseth us 
(spirit born holy) from all sin. 

CHILDREN OF LIGHT. 

Luke xvi. 8 : The children of light. 



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John xii. 36 : While ye have light, believe in the light, that 
ye may be the children of light. 

Eph. v. 8 : For ye were sometime darkness, but now are ye 
liiiht in the Lord. Walk as children of lig;ht. 

1 Thess. v. 5 : Ye (spirit born holy) are all children of light, 
and the children of the day. We are not of the night, nor of 
darkness. 

CHILDREN OF THE DEVIL. 

Matt. xiii. 38 : The tares are the children of the wicked one. 
39 : The enemy that sowed them is the devil ; the harvest is the 
end of the world ; and the reapers are the angels. 40 : As there- 
fore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire, so shall it be in 
the end of this world. 

John viii. 44 : Ye are of your father the devil. 

Acts xiii. 10 : Thou child of the devil. 

1 John iii. 8 : He that committeth sin is of the devil. 10 : 
The child of the devil doeth not righteousness. 

Eph. ii. 2 : Children of disobedience. 3 : Children of wrath. 

Eph. v. 6 : Let no man deceive you with vain words ; for be- 
cause of these things cometh the displeasure of God upon the 
children of disobedience. 

Rom. v. 12 : By Adam's sin, death passed upon all men, for 
that all have sinned (in Adam, Ps. Ii. 5). 17 : By one man's 
offense, death reigned by one. Much more they which receive 
grace (spirit soul mind spirit birth life immortal) shall reign in 
life by one, Jesus Christ. 



MAN AND CHILDREN OF MEN. 

Gen. ii. 7 : And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the 
ground. 15 : And the Lord God took the man, and put him into 
the garden of Eden. 16 : And the Lord God commanded the 
man, saying, 17 : Of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou 
shalt not eat of it : for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou 
shalt surely die. 24 : Therefore shall a man leave his father and 
his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one 
flesh. 

Gen. iii. 4 : And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not 
surely die. 12 : And the man said, The woman gave me of the 
tree, and I did eat. 17 : Unto Adam God said, Cursed is the 






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ground for thy sake ; in sorrow shaJt thou eat of it, all the days of 
thy life. (Unless Adam the man, and his wife Eve, have some 
other than the life they then had, they must be endlessly void of 
any life whatever, when they die nature death of blood life.) 19 : 
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return unto 
the ground ; for out of it wast thou taken : for dust thou art, and 
unto dust shalt thou return. No reserve of any kind whatever. 
22 : Lest man take of the tree of life and eat and live forever. 
24 : So God drove out the man ; and he placed a flaming sword to 
keep the way of the tree of life. 

John iii. 3 : Except a man be born again he cannot see the 
kingdom of God. 

Matt. xvi. 24 : Jesus said, If any man will come after me, let 
him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow me. 25 : For 
whosoever will save his (blood) life (beyond the grave) shall lose 
it ; and whosoever will lose (sacrifice it for spirit life love) his 
(blood) life for my sake (in defending gospel grace spirit birth 
truth) shall find it. Spirit life immortal, spirit soul mind belief 
birth new creature life. 

1 Cor. xv. 45 : The first man Adam was made a living soul 
(Ezek. xviii. 4 : The soul that sinneth it shall die). The last 
Adam (Jesus) was made a quickening spirit (Eph. ii. 1). 46: 
That was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural ; 
and afterward that which is spiritual. 47 : The first man is of the 
earth, earthy ; the second man is the Lord from heaven. 48 : As 
is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy ; and as is the 
heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. 49 : As we have 
borne the image of the earthy, we (saints spirit born holy, new 
creatures in Christ) shall also bear the image of (Christ) the heav- 
enly. 50 : Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God ; 
neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. 

PARABLES. 

Matt. xiii. 34 : All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude 
in parables, and without a parable spake he not unto them. 

The parable of the eye and hand of Matthew, and foot addi- 
tional of Mark, which Luke nor John nor any other apostle refers 
to, and the parable of the rich man Luke only gives ; no others 
make the least mention of it, and they differ wholly from all the 
Scriptures, Old and New. May they not be interpolations, as the 



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pagan mythologists, and inquisition Roman Catholics prevented the 
general use of the Bible for twelve hundred and sixty years success- 
fully, and no sane mind would say that the man should be tortured 
in hell fire and brimstone eternally, because his own eye, hand or foot 
gave offense to himself; not to God or his neighbor. 

Matt. v. 29 : If thy right eye offend thee (thyself), pluck it out 
and cast it from thee ; which if any mortal should attempt to do 
he would be put in a strait jacket and sent to a lunatic asylum, as 
hopelessly insane. 30 : If thy right hand offend thee (nobody 
else concerned but thyself), cut it off and cast it from thee. Who 
would be benefited? no one; and you would be disabled, a cripple 
for life. 

Mark ix. 43 : If thy hand offend thee, cut it off. 45 : And if 
thy foot offend thee, cut it off. 47 : If thine eye offend thee, 
pluck it out. The meaning is, if a man looketh on a woman to 
lust after her, or uses his foot or hand to perpetrate a criminal act 
against the woman, and thereby lose immortal life among the holy 
in heaven, it would have been better for him to have suffered from 
the loss of sight, etc., than lose his immortal life in heaven. 

Luke xvi. 19 : There was a certain rich man which was clothed 
in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day. 

Gen. xiii. 2 : And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and 
in gold. Gen. xii. 7 : And the Lord appeared unto Abram, and 
said, Unto thy seed (the Jews) will I give this land (Canaan). 

Gen. xvii. 1-26 : I will give thee and thy seed after thee (the 
Jews) the land of Canaan. I will establish my covenant between 
me and thee, and thy seed after thee (the Jews), in their genera- 
tions, for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to 
thy seed (the Jews) after thee. Thus a rich man in grace, inex- 
haustible riches. 

Luke xvi. 20 : And there was a certain beggar named Lazr- 
arus, which was laid at his gate full of sores. (Scripture riches 
covenant destitution ; synagogue gate. Jesus as Lazarus.) Ps. 
xxii. 1 : My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me ? 6 : 
But I am a worm (that dieth not), and no man ; a reproach 
of men, and despised of the people. 16 : For dogs have com- 
passed me ; the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me ; they 
pierced my hands and my feet. 18: They part my garments 
among them, and cast lots upon my vesture. 29 : All that go 
down to the dust shall bow before him, and none can keep alive 
his own soul. 



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Isa. i. 6 : From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is 
no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores; 
they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with 
ointment. This was the state of the Gentiles when Jesus came, 
as the woman's seed representative of the Gentiles in Ruth, and 
Roaz in Jew, who begat Obed, and Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse 
begat David. 

Gen. iii. 15 ; Heb. ii. 14 : Jesus spirit begotten. 
• Luke xvi. 21 : And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which 
fell from the rich man's table ; moreover dogs came and licked his 
sores. 

Matt. xv. 25 : Then came she and worshiped him, saying, Lord, 
help me. 26 : But he answered and said, It is not meet to take 
the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs. 27 : And she said, 
Truth, Lord ; yet the dogs (Gentiles, Lazarus) eat of the crumbs 
which fall from their master's table. 

Luke xvi. 22 : And it came to pass that the beggar died, and 
was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom (Gentiles through 
the Abrahamic covenant of faith in Christ, compared to Abraham's 
bosom). (Gen. xviii. 18 : All the nations of the earth shall be 
blessed in Abraham.) The rich man also died and was buried. 
(The poor man was not buried, covered from grace, but placed in 
Abraham's love covenant of faith promises ; while the Jews, the rich 
man, who excluded the Gentiles from their table of temple worship, 
and kept the Gentiles at the outer gate, and the Gentile nations had 
but crumbs that fell from the Jews outside of the temple of God's 
laws). 23 : And in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, 
and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. 24 : And 
he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me (thus the 
Jews, rich man, were making a god of Abraham, as the Roman 
Catholics do of the Virgin Mary), and send Lazarus, that he 
may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue ; for I 
am tormented in this flame. (As a literal transaction it would be 
a singular thing that the rich man dead and buried in the ground, 
while void of blood life, and the body mouldering back to dust, 
should be tormented in flame, when the tongue was dead ; and 
how could it speak if it was dead and buried ? Any such literal 
deduction is ocular proof of an insane fanatical mind. It is 
purely parabolic deductions of the rejection of Christ by the Jews; 
and their wretched state as a nation for centuries, murdered, taxed, 
plundered, scourged, driven out of nations, etc. 



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Acts xiii. 46 : It was necessary that the word of God should 
first have been spoken to you : but seeing ye put it from you, and 
judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the 
Gentiles. 47 : For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I 
have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be 
for salvation unto the ends of the earth. 

Luke xvi. 25 : But Abraham said, Son (acknowledging the rich 
man to be his descendant, a Jew), remember thou in thy lifetime 
(showing the rich men dead as to faith life immortal covenant, by 
way, Abrahamic conditional with compliance promise ; which the 
rich man Jews broke when they rejected Christ, who only could 
possibly fulfil the covenant promises and prophecies) receivedst thy 
good things (during their obedience to their covenant vows), and 
likewise Lazarus (the Gentiles, wholly left to idolatry, mythology, 
philosophy, and pagan priestcraft, and Egyptian mummy resurrec- 
tions of rotten bodies ; no embalmed mortal bodies, a seeming im- 
provement) evil things : but now (under the freedom gospel dis- 
pensation conditional promises to all Adam's race, the poor man 
Lazarus) he is comforted, and thou (rich man Jew, while you 
cleave to the broken Abrahamic covenant, dead, and obsolete ; and 
reject Christ Jesus as your Messiah) art tormented. 

26 : And besides all this, between us and you there is a great 
gulf fixed (circumcision gulf separates Jews and Gentiles : their 
rejection of Christ is an impassable gulf, their broken covenant is 
a dead gulf : Gal. v. 6 : For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision 
availeth anything, nor uncircumcision ; but faith which worketh 
by love. vi. 7, 8, 15) : so that they which would pass from hence 
to you cannot ; neither can they pass to us, that would come from 
thence (John iii. 5 : Spirit birth, or he cannot enter the kingdom 
of God : an impassable gulf to all who reject Christ). 

27 : Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou 
wouldest send him to my father's house. 28 : For I have five 
brethren (Scribes, Pharisees, Sadducees, Publicans, and Essenes) ; 
that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place 
of torment. 29 : And Abraham saith unto him, They have 
Moses and the prophets (who had Moses and the prophets at that 
time ? no people on the earth but the Jews) ; let them hear them. 
30 : And he said, Nay, father Abraham ; but if one went unto 
them from the dead (here Christ clearly refers to himself. Luke 
xxiv. 47 : Beginning at Jerusalem), they will repent. 31 : And 
he (Abraham) said unto him (the rich man Jew), If they hear 



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not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded 
though one rose from the dead. Which was clearly proved true 
by Christ's resurrection, and testimony to the Jews, which they 
disregarded, and still the Jews reject Christ, as a sect or people ; 
and are still groping blindly through the Scriptures, Moses, and 
the prophets, who plainly often spoke of Christ Jesus as their 
only hope of salvation. Isa. viii. 16 : Bind up the testimony, seal 
the law among my disciples. 17 : And I will wait upon the Lord, 
that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for 
him. 20 : To the law and to the testimony : if they speak not 
according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. 
22 : And they shall be driven into darkness. Isa. ix. 2 : The 
people (Gentiles) that walked in darkness have seen a great light. 
. . . upon them hath the light shined. 6 : For unto us a child 
is born, unto us a son is given ; and the government shall be upon 
his shoulder. And his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsel- 
lor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. 

Preachers who claim to belong to the spirit love army of the 
Prince of Peace, and volunteer to take part in the devil's fire and 
brimstone hell wars of earth, where poor men and boys are forced 
by laws made by the devils lawyers, to go and shoot down with 
cannon balls, bomb-shell missiles, and ruthless demon bullets of 
iron and lead, and mangle the blood life bodies of their fellow 
mortals and shed each other's life blood, as demon butchers and 
murderers, for the upholding of their demoniac thieving lying 
party, who make (Isa, xxviii. 15) lies their refuge, and hatred to 
their opposing party a virtue ; all such war advocating and war 
murdering participant preachers are the devil's children : for 
(Matt. xii. 33) the tree is known by his fruit. The Lord God's 
law. 

Exod. xx. 13 : Thou shalt not kill. 

Matt. v. 7 : Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain 
mercy. 9 : Blessed are the peacemakers (not war butchers of 
their fellow-men, murderers, and assassins, and duelists, but peace- 
makers, who preach not war, but peace), for they (peacemakers) 
shall be called the children of God. 21 : Thou shalt not kill ; 
and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment. 

Matt. vi. 15 : If ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither 
will your Father forgive your trespasses. 

Matt. vii. 3 : Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy 
brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own 



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eye ? 20 : By their fruits ye shall know them. 21 : Not every 
one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom 
of heaven ; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in 
heaven. 22 : Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, 
have we not prophesied (preached) in thy name, cast out devils, 
and in thy name do.ne many wonderful works ? 23 : And then 
will I profess unto them, I never knew you (never imparted to 
them love's quickening to spirit life immortal love milt seed, of 
spirit soul mind birth of God's love) : depart from me, ye that 
work iniquity. 

Lev. xix. 18 : Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself: I am 
the Lord. (Do you desire, if you are placed on the left hand of 
the judge of all the earth, in the last judgment day, to be con- 
demned to an endless existence of life tortures in a lake of fire 
and brimstone ? 1 asked a teacher of endless tortures of the wicked 
yesterday. He said emphatically, No. I quoted Matt. xix. 19 : 
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself ; he was as dumb. xxii. 
39 : Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. Mark xii. 31 : 
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other 
commandment greater than these.) 

Matt. v. 44 : I (the Lord God) say unto you, Love your ene- 
mies (not murder them on the field of hell fire and brimstone 
battle), bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you 
(not kill, or mangle their blood life bodies with murderous bullets 
or other hell war weapons), pray for them which despitefully use 
you and persecute you ; that you may be children of your Father 
which is in heaven. 

James iii. 17 : The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then 
peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated ; full of mercy and 
good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. 18 : And 
the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make 
peace. 

James iv. 1 : From whence come wars and fightings among 
you? Come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your 
members ? 2 : Ye lust, and have not : ye kill, and desire to 
have, and cannot obtain : ye fight and war, yet ye have not, be- 
cause ye ask not (in the Lord's appointed way). 4 : Ye adul- 
terers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the 
world is enmity with God ? Whosoever therefore will be the 
friend of the world is the enemy of God. 

Mai. iii. 16 : Then they that feared the Lord spake often one 



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to another (like the union Christian meetings, not one talk to all 
the others, but each of God's children speak as his witness to 
his Scripture truths, experimentally known by actual spirit birth 
of God's love life immortal, partaking through Christ of his spirit, 
without which no mortal is immortal), and the Lord hearkened, 
and heard it (not preaching one to all, but one to another), and a 
book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared 
the Lord (to sin against his law commands), and that thought 
upon his name (loved the Lord). 

Matt. xxii. 37 : Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord 
thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy 
mind. 39 : Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. 40 : On 
these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. 

Matt. xiii. 37-40 : He that soweth the good seed is the Son of 
man. The field is the world ; the good seed are the children of 
the kingdom ; but the tares are the children of the wicked one ; 
the enemy that sowed them is the devil ; the harvest is the end 
of the world, and the reapers are the angels. As therefore the 
tares are gathered and burned in the fire, so shall it be in the end 
of the world. 

John iii. 5 : Except a man be born of water and of the spirit, 
he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 6 : That which is born 
of the flesh is flesh ; and that which is born of the spirit is spirit. 

John iv. 24 : God is a Spirit. 

1 John v. 18 : We (spirit born) know that whosoever is born 
of God sinneth not ; but he that is begotten of God keepeth him- 
self, and the wicked one toucheth him not. 

1 John iv. 16 : God is love, and he that dwelleth in love dwell- 
eth in God, and God in him. 

1 John iii. 8 : He that committeth sin is of the devil. 9 : 
Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin, for his seed re- 
maineth in him. (Christ's spirit, love : Rom. viii. 9) : And he 
cannot sin, because he is born of God. 10 : In this the children 
of God are manifest, and the children of the devil : whosoever 
doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not 
his brother. 

The description of sunlight, or curious colors, to a blind man, 
who though of the largest capacity (ten talents), he cannot so well 
understand it by the most acute and lively description, as a child 
can by seeing them ; so neither can the natural man, of the largest 
capacity, by the best words, even Scripture words, so well under- 



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stand the spiritual mysteries of God's kingdom, as the least and 
weakest spirit born child of God, who tasted them, by having them 
revealed in the soul mind inwardly by the spirit birth immortal spirit 
life light impartation of love of God seed, sown by the Saviour. 
How dost thou know that thou art thus actuated? which will ap- 
pear to the spirit born no less absurd than to ask one whose eyes 
are open, how he knows the sun shines on a clear day at noon. It 
is the privilege of Christ's sheep indeed that they hear his voice, 
and refuse that of a stranger to spirit birth light love ; which 
privilege if taken away for our trial of faith, or for sin cause, we 
are left a prey to all manner of wolves. 

The Scriptures God has preserved, to give us truth's spirit guide, 
and to witness against all who pretend to believe, and yet deny its 
truths, and plainly stated statute laws of God. All spirit born 
partake of the spirit fountain of immortal life, from whence flow- 
eth the river of life, and by that spirit love know the Scripture 
writers partook of the same fountain of immortal spirit life love. 
That which is not the rule of my faith in believing the Scriptures 
themselves is not the primary adequate rule of faith and man- 
ners ; but the Scriptures are not, nor can they be, the rule of the 
faith by which I believe them ; if I have been taught from child- 
hood to believe them, by a men creed sectarian priest, who disre- 
garded God's statute Scripture laws, and falsified the meaning of 
the Scripture parables ; if by spirit birth new creature life we can 
only come to the true knowledge of God ; if by the Spirit we are 
to be led into all truth, and so be taught of all things, — then the 
Spirit of the Lord is the only infallible guide to enable us to dis- 
cern the truths of the Scriptures. The Spirit and the Scriptures 
agree as one. The letter of the Scriptures is outward witness of 
the truth. The spirit birth love light life is a living witness of 
the experimental spirit birth, new creature development of God's 
spirit love word, spirit birth power; Scriptures teach how to 
obtain spirit life immortal birth, and are a declaration of good 
things, but not the things themselves that are experimentally known 
to believers. 

Ps. lxxviii. 1 : Give ear, my people, to my law ; incline your ears 
to the words of my mouth. 2 : I will open my mouth in a parable. 
He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them (the Jews) 
drink as out of the great depths. 17 : And they sinned yet more 
against him by provoking the Most High in the wilderness. 
19 : Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a 



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table in the wilderness? 38, 39 : Yea, many a time turned he his 
anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath, for he remembered 
that they were but flesh ; a wind that passeth away, and cometh 
not again. 50: He made a way for his anger; he spared not their 
soul from death. 

Ezek. xviii. 4 : The soul that sinneth, it shall die. 20 : The 
soul that sinneth, it shall die. 26 : When a righteous man turneth 
away from his righteousness and committeth iniquity, and dieth 
in them, for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die. 27 : Again 
when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he 
hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall 
save his soul alive. 31 : Cast away all your transgressions, and 
make you a new heart, and a new spirit ; for why will ye die. 
32 : For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith 
the Lord God ; wherefore turn yourselves and live ye. 

Ps. li. 10: Create in me a clean heart, God; and renew a 
right spirit within me. 

John viii. 51 : Verily, verily, I (Jesus) say unto you, if a man 
keep my saying (obey God's Scripture commands), he shall never 
see death (spiritual soul mind birth new creature in Christ can 
never die. If they remain in Christ at blood life body death, 
they are taken by Christ's angels, their ministering spirits, to 
heaven life endless). 

John v. 24 : He that heareth my word, and believeth on him 
that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into con- 
demnation, but is passed from death unto life. 25 : Verily, verily, 
I say unto you, the hour is coming and now is, when the dead 
(in trespasses and sins : Eph. ii. 1, And you (spirit born, John 
iii. 5) hath Christ quickened, who were dead in trespasses and 
sins) shall hear the voice of the Son of God ; and they that hear 
shall live. 29 : They that have done good unto the resurrection 
of life ; and they that have done evil unto the resurrection of 
condemnation. 

Rom. vi. 23 : For the wages of sin is death ; but the gift of 
God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. 

RESURRECTION. 

Matt. xxii. 29 : Jesus . . . said unto the Sadducees, Ye do err, 
not knowing the Scriptures (the same men creed blindness still 
prevails), nor the power of God. 30 : In the resurrection they 



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... are as the angels of God in heaven. 32 : I am the God of 
Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob ! God is 
not the God of the dead, but of thg living. Being not a God of 
the dead, and being the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, they 
must then have been alive. 

Mark xii. 25 : When they shall rise from the dead they . . . 
are as the angels which are in heaven. (Saints will probably fill 
the places once occupied by Satan and other fallen angels previ- 
ous to their fall ; which may account for their envy and hatred 
of Adam's race. And if spirit born are as God's angels, they 
must be resurrected from spiritual trespass and sin death, and as 
God's children live holy lives, and daily do good ; and no sin evil 
deed, in act, or thought. (Lord, please help us to evermore love 
thy Father, who first loved us, and thee, and the Holy Spirit with 
all our souls, minds, hearts, and strength, and our neighbor as our- 
selves, and all that love thee, especially those lovely guardian 
angels, who always behold our Father's face !) 26 : I am the God 
of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob ! 27 : 
He is not a God of the dead, but a God of the living (such as are 
spirit born holy children of God). 

Luke xx. 35, 36 : They which shall be accounted worthy to 
obtain that (the spirit life immortal love) world, and the resurrec- 
tion from (not of) the dead, neither marry nor are given in mar- 
riage. Neither can they die any more ; for they are equal unto 
the angels (Ps. civ. 4 : God maketh his angels spirits) ; and are 
the children of God, being the children of the resurrection. 37 : 
Now that the dead are raised (already dead, have been spirit bora 
to soul mind life immortal, and resurrected at their blood life pro- 
bation death to heavenly angelic spirit life immortal). 38 : For 
he is not the God of the dead, but of the living (such as Abra- 
ham, Isaac, and Jacob) ; for all (living) live unto him (by way of 
his life light rays). 

Acts xvii. 28 : For in him we live, and move, and have our 
being (probation blood life ended, all die out of Christ's spirit love 
life rays of God). 

John v. 24 : Yerily, verily, I (Jesus) say unto you, he that re- 
ceiveth my word, and believeth on him (his Father, Almighty 
Jehovah God, the Supreme Sovereign of the Universe, Father of 
all spirit life love immortal, Heb. xii. 9) that sent me, hath ever- 
lasting life, and shall not come into condemnation ; but is passed 
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John v. 25 : Verily, verily, I (Jesus) say unto you, the hour is 
coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the 
Son of God ; and they that hear shall live (no others live immor- 
tal life). 40 : Ye (incorrigibly wicked) will not come to me 
(Jesus), that ye might have life. 

John vi. 63 : It is the spirit that quickeneth ; the flesh profit- 
eth nothing : the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, 
and they are life. 57 : He that eateth me (Christ's words believe), 
even he shall live by me. 58 : This is that (spirit love life im- 
mortal of God) bread which came down from heaven : not as your 
(Jewish) fathers did eat manna (blood life body food) and are 
dead : he that eateth of this (soul mind spirit love life immortal 
spirit) bread (love) shall live forever. 68 : Thou (Christ Jesus) 
hast the words (of God's grace conditional pardon, and) of eternal 
life. 

John viii. 51 : Verily, verily, I (Jesus) say unto you, if a man 
keep my saying, he shall never see death (the body dies). 

John x. 13 : The hireling fleeth, because he is a hireling, and 
careth not for the sheep. 27 : My sheep hear my voice, and I 
know them, and they follow me (Scripture truths, not men tradition 
false creeds of men's manufacture, for self glory, from ignorant 
and simple mortals) ; and I give unto them (who obey and follow 
Christ Jesus) eternal life. 

John xi. 25 : Jesus said, I am the resurrection and the life 
(immortal spirit life) : he that believeth in me, though he were 
(spiritually) dead, yet shall he live. 26 : And whosoever liveth 
(is spirit born, John iii. 5; 1 John v. 18) and believeth in me 
shall never die (then such are surely resurrected from soul second 
death). 

Rom. vi. 5, 13: Yield yourselves unto God, as those that are 
alive from the dead. 23 : The wages of sin is death ; but the 
gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Rom. 
viii. 8 : So then they that are in the flesh (carnal soul mind of 
blood life's Adamic fallen nature of rebel sin lust birth. Ps. li. 
5 : Behold I was shapen in iniquity ; and in sin did my (David's) 
mother conceive me) cannot please God. 6 : For to be carnally 
minded is death. 9 : But ye (spirit born children of God) are 
not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if so be the spirit of God dwell 
in you. Now if any man have not the spirit of Christ, he is none 
of his. 10 : And if Christ be in you, the body is dead (under 
the sentence of death still. Gen. iii. 19 : Dust thou art, and unto 



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dust shalt thou return), because of sin ; but the spirit (spirit born 
new creature in Christ, 2 Cor. v. 17 ; John iii. 5) is life because 
of righteousness. 

1 John iii. 10: In this the children of God are manifest, and 
the children of the devil. Whosoever doeth not righteousness is 
not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother. 

1 Cor. xv. 23 : Christ the first fruits ; afterwards they that are 
Christ's at his coming, those having Christ's spirit: Rom. 
viii. 9, At blood life probation . . . death. That Christ Jesus 
our Lord and Master, teacher of divine heavenly life, by veiling 
a portion of the Lord God's spirit word love power, in the 
woman's nature blood life egg germ of all animate earth life, and 
the sufferance of his blood life of Jesus' mortal body to be rejected 
by the Jews, and crucified by order of a governor of Rome, by 
Roman soldiers, did not put up a reward of goodness to pay the 
bill of rebel sinners, all that doctrine is untenable with truth rea- 
son. It is absurd men creed's false doctrine. To punish a good 
man for the wicked sinful acts of a bad man, is not satisfaction 
to equitable justice truth : the judge who would inflict death or 
any other punishment on the innocent pure righteous sanctified 
holy man, is a murderer himself, and all the aiders and accessory 
abettors are party participant murderers, although compelled by 
law to obey the judge murderer of the innocent ; and neither they 
nor any other mortal on earth could thereafter possibly receive by 
the death of the innocent blood life body of Jesus any remission, 
permission, or atonement for any wilful intentional sin, or unjust 
wicked act. The blood life spirit begotten of Jesus made an 
atonement possible for the soul mind spiritually dead, as a female 
nature egg, without male quickening seed ; and Jesus' spirit seed 
of spirit love life immortal spirit of God, the Father of spirits, 
then, as previously, and as now, by faith, believing in and relying 
upon God's promise. 

Gen. iii. 15 ; Heb. ii. 14 ; Matt. xiii. 37, 38 ; John iii. 5 ; iv. 
24 ; viii. 63 ; xi. 25, 26 ; Rom. viii. 9 ; 2 Cor. v. 17 ; 1 John 
iv. 16; v. 18; Matt. xxi. 22: All things (in accord with God's 
will, as revealed in the Scriptures) whatsoever ye shall ask in 
prayer, believing (faith), ye shall receive. 

Lev. xvii. 11 : For the life of the flesh is the blood: for it 
is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.- Not blood 
life body ; there is no atonement for the blood life body ; all such 
creeds of men are pagan mummy myths, utterly without truth. 



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A blow on a man's head often leaves him unconscious of blood 
life or soul life being ; the brain, nerves, and muscles, are the 
conductors of heart blood life pulsation electricity, and the soul 
mind will connects with and uses the blood life's electric currents 
to move at will the body, to walk, lift, speak, sing, to live, move, 
and have a being, from God's life spirit rays of nature life. 

Thomas Paine calls the belief in God deism. The Jews believe 
in but one God ; they are not deists. All real Christians believe 
in one God, self-existent spirit, Father of all immortal spirit life. 

1 Tim. vi. 16 : Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the 
light which no man can approach unto ; whom no man hath seen, 
nor can see. 

Heb. xii. 9 : Shall we not much rather be in subjection unto 
the Father of spirits and live ? 

2 Tim. i. 10 : Now made manifest by the appearing of our 
Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and brought life 
and immortality to light through the gospel. He put an end to 
spirit soul mind death, of spirit soul mind born of God, spirit 
children of God : as God's spirit messenger of immortal spirit life, 
and to fulfill his law by his messenger, Moses, and his truth 
prophets of the Scriptures. The Lord God whom Adam and Eve, 
and Moses, Aaron, Abraham, Gideon, Job, etc., saw in a body of 
human form, put on as a garment, or rather used as a communi- 
cating medium, for the express purpose of communicating by such 
spirit condescension love to mortals, the same as he by his word 
(Gen. iii. 15) of woman's seed egg in the Virgin Mary formed 
the body of Jesus, that by such alliance to Adam's race he could 
open thereby a spirit love door to God's immortal life spirit 
heaven : whom all spirit born children of God knows to be truth, 
by soul mind spirit love birth of Christ's spirit life immortal love 
of God seed ; which the Lord God brought to earth. Mysterious 
to poor worm man are all the ways of heaven's spirit love God of 
wisdom, and power, and attributes infinite and endless in life 
and power to create a world from naught, but greater condescen- 
sion love infinite, to redeem from death sentence in Eden any of 
Adam's race, by spirit soul mind birth : Thomas Paine, and 
other deists, and millions of Adam's rebel race, without spirit 
birth knowledge, disbelieve what they could not possibly compre- 
hend without experimental spirit birth. 

1 Cor. ii. 14 : The natural man receiveth not the things of the 
spirit of God (who all are the products of mortals sin lust, Ps. Ii. 5). 



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Isa. xl. 15 : Behold the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and 
are counted as the small dust of the balance. 17 : All nations 
before God are as nothing, and they are counted to him less than 
nothing, and vanity. Pagan priestcraft tradesmen dealt in wooden 
myth gods, before the Egyptian mummy blood life's body resurrec- 
tion age ; the rotten body returned to nature elements, made of 
nature products, to resurrect, was too much of a humbug for pagan 
priests to attempt to palm off as truth on poor benighted mortals, 
and they invented a process of embalming to prevent the mortal's 
dead body from rotting back to nature's elements, from whence it 
was formed by nature products : they left out the brains, and 
most of the blood, etc. Between three and four thousand years 
the poor mummy bodies have waited the return of the good Egyp- 
tians' souls, but as no soul has returned to claim their mummy 
body, they, according to their priest's body resurrection creeds, 
priests, kings, judges, and all, have been the children of the devil, 
and still wading down the grades of animate life deaths, or roast- 
ing in the torture fire and brimstone lake. 

Preachers who preach that Jesus died that they might sin if 
in the church, and that Christ pays their passage to heaven gratis, 
if they pay the preacher a good salary for such evil knowledge, 
and read prayers ; they indulge in all the world's recreations and 
become careless of morals, as a spendthrift would be of money, 
when told that his father agreed to pay all his bills. It is a doc- 
trine dangerous to morals in this world, and excludes its votaries 
from the society of the holy in heaven. The wages of sin is 
death. 

1 John iii. 8 : He that committeth sin is of the devil. 10 : In 
this the children of God are manifest, and children of the devil : 
whosoever doth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that 
loveth not his brother. 

Deism boasts of God, of whom without the Scriptures they dis- 
card ; they have no revealed knowledge whatever, save speechless 
nature footprints. There is a society of Masons in Dublin, Ire- 
land (whose first settlers, save the northern part, county of An- 
trim, Belfast, etc., settled by Celts of Scotland and Wales, were 
Phoenicians and Druid sun-worshipers), who take the name of 
Druids, sun- worshipers. In the year 1000, in the city of York, 
in England, Masonry first began, by an organization of practical 
mechanic masons, who worked with a trowel, etc. At first there 
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as a workman out of his apprentice education ; and master mason. 
In 1717, in London (and 1733 in New York city and Philadel- 
phia, United States of America ; in 1736 in Scotland), Druidism 
secrets and ancient sun-worship, speculative Masonry was organ- 
ized ; and from plain laborers at first, master, teacher, dress pa- 
rade, titled drones, now rule, as Grand Treasurers, Knights of 
Malta, Captain-Grenerals, Generalissimos, Most Excellent Scribes, 
Most Excellent High Priests, Most Excellent Kings, Command- 
ers, etc., etc. 

Odd fellowship is of a recent date ; began at Baltimore, Mary- 
land, U. S. A. ; an imitation of Masonry, with insurance, etc. The 
morals taught by both societies, if lived up to, make good citizens ; 
but, like the churches, wolves get in and devour the humble worthy 
laborer's substance. The same fuss and feathers, vain weak minded 
foolish soap bubble titles of clown buffoonery, claims to rule the 
spirit church work of Christ, who forbade all titles, and selected 
poor, illiterate, honest working fishermen for master workmen. 
Now, doctors of divinity, I do not, nor did I ever worship a 
divinity that was sick, or needed doctors. And if he did, I think 
heaven could furnish infinitely better. 

Right reverend fathers in Grod. Matt, xxiii. 8 : Be not ye 
called rabbi ; for one is your master, even Christ ; and all 
ye are brethren. 9 : And call no man your father upon the 
earth ; for one is your Father which is in heaven. Popes 
assume titles Christ forbids, being anti-Christ ; and cardinals, 
bishops, etc., are all speculative titled officials, differing as much 
from Christ Jesus working Christian disciples, as speculative 
Masonry differs from the working day laborers, or builders, who 
first united in the three-degree lodge in the city of York, England, 
or as different as dress parade soldiers from warriors at work on 
hell fire battle fields ; or as drones in the manufacture of honey. 
Grod uses means in all his communications with mortals inhabiting; 
dust bodies of nature's perishable materials, that requires daily 
nature food to repair worn out parts of the human blood life body, 
and for its expansion growth to mature manhood, or woman 
stature ; all of which is but decaying short lived nature products. 
If Grod should use his spirit power, and force mortals against their 
will to do his will, they would be as mere machines, and void of 
freedom enjoyment; or as an instrument of music, which enjoys 
naught of the sweet music made by the good musician who uses 
the instrument. Infidels and sceptics malign and deny the Scrip- 
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ture truths, which they in their unspirit-born unregenerate nature 
worm state cannot comprehend more than the mud grub-worm, the 
flying dragon-fly, existence in the air, which atmosphere killed his 
water-grub life. 

1 Cor. ii. 14 : But the natural man receiveth not the things of 
the spirit of Grod ; for they are foolishness unto him ; neither can 
he (unspirit-born) know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 
In inertia earthly matter, below sunlight power rays influence, no 
seed germinates, no life inhabits it ; the general law of inanimate 
nature life ; earth's depths are void of life. That man's reason 
would never discover the oak in the acorn, or the rose in the rose- 
bush by analyzation, with all the researches or appliances of science. 
Nor animate life in the female egg or male seed ; separate, they 
contain no life whatever ; united they produce their species, if 
governed in accord with healthful nature's life laws, whether of 
mortals of Adamic commencement, or first seeds in any other ani- 
mate life on earth ; beasts, birds, reptiles, fishes, insects, worms, or 
microscope life, in waters, on earth, or in the air. 

All animate life germinates in the female eggs, and is quick- 
ened into life by male seeds. The pollen seeds on the cornstalk, if 
white corn seed falls on the silk on the cob of the yellow corn, it 
will produce white corn, and vice versa. Evolutions from the egg. 
Have we then no true evolution in animate nature ? Can we refer 
nothing to ancestry ? Not so. By careful study we have seen 
enough to satisfy us that all animate life on earth, pertaining to 
nature life animate, produce eggs in their every variety of species, 
in the females ; and the quickening life-germ is in the males ; 
which eggs, thus quickened and aided by nature's appointed ways 
of development, produce through a vast series of successive trans- 
formations and modifications into beings identical with the parents. 
We can with microscope and a transparent white fish-egg, quick- 
ened by the male, in transparent, clear fresh water, follow their 
evolution step by step, and trace the process of self- formation 
through all its stages in about seventy days, its transform from in- 
animate egg matter, to the production of an organism as compli- 
cated as the human form, which is similarly developed in about 
four times the length of time. 

There is then evolution in nature ; there is an unfolding of 
structural elements, with higher and higher complications, out of 
the inanimate matter of an egg, when quickened into life. One 
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of encasement of germs in germs, generation after generation, so 
that the animal born to-day must have been contained in the first 
of that species formed, is not true. Each egg and each male seed 
of the parents imparts of itself only to its offspring, of every species 
on earth. Only by research of reason and accurate observation, 
and diligent research in God's book of nature, can correct the false 
creeds of men that mortals begets immortals ; or that the immortal 
spirit God begets sin-lust blood life dying mortals ; God's children 
are all like him, as spirits. 

Heb. xii. 9 : We have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, 
and we gave them reverence ; shall we not much rather be in sub- 
jection unto the Father of spirits and live? Only diligent search 
of the Scriptures and putting the spirit truths spirit like in a chain 
together ; and searching God's book of nature, with spirit born 
new creature in Christ reason, and spirit love eyes, can we correct 
errors, aided by Christ's spirit love light wisdom guidance to truths 
eternal ; and so long as the history of the egg-germ of all earth's 
animate life gives us no reason to suppose that the final end toward 
which metamorphosis tends, viz. the production of a new being 
like the parent, is interfered with, and that all beings arising from 
eggs are incidental with the parents, or return through subsequent 
and invariable changes to the parent's form. 

We are not justified in assuming that the diversity among 
animals is brought about by a gradual divergence from their original 
type. The diversity, however little we may understand it, can- 
not, from a scientific point of view, be ascribed to a cause of which 
we know nothing, and of the existence of which we have as yet 
no evidence. Darwin and other imaginary philosophers are like 
the mythologists and men-creed priest manufacturers of myths, all 
counter to truth and enlightened spirit soul mind senses. We have 
actual knowledge that the mortal sin-lust bodies of Adam's sin- 
lust race are the products of man and wife from nature eggs, as is 
all animate life on earth ; all such bodies are fed by and made of 
nature's perishable products, and after death soon see corruption 
rottenness; as the fruits, meats, potatoes, etc., of which it is com- 
posed, if not eaten soon rot, and become void of all life prop- 
erties ; save as manure to vegetation life, utterly worthless ; the 
man who teaches its resurrection tells what his reason condemns 
as false. 

Ps. xxxiv. 2 : My soul shall make her boast in the Lord (not 
man creeds false) ; the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. The 



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soul egg is the mind, and when it is quickened by God's im- 
mortal spirit love seed in Christ, and sown by him : Matt. xiii. 
37, 38. Spirit-born : John iii. 5. It becomes a new creature in 
Christ : 2 Cor. v. 17. Eph. ii. 1 : A child of God and son of 
God : 1 John iii. 1, 2, 10 ; v. 18 ; i. 7 : But if we walk in the 
light as God is in the light, we (spirit born holy) have fellowship 
one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth 
us from all sin. 

1 John iii. 2 : Beloved, now are we the sons of God. 7 : Little 
children, let no man deceive you. 8 : He that committeth sin is 
of the devil. 9 : Whosoever is born of God doth not commit 
sin ; for his seed (spirit love : holiness, immortality, spirit of God, 
and of Christ: Rom. vii. 8, 9 : or he is none of his.) 10: 
In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the 
devil : whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither 
he that loveth not his brother. 14 : We know that we have 
passed from death unto life (first resurrection), because we love 
the brethren. 

1 John iv. 16 : God is love : and he that dwelleth in love dwell- 
eth in God, and God in him. 

1 John v. 18 : We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth 
not ; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and the 
wicked one toucheth him not. 19 : And we know we are of God, 
and the whole world lieth in wickedness. 

1 John ii. 1 : My little children, I write unto you, that ye sin 
not. And if any man sin we have an advocate with the Father, 
Jesus Christ the righteous. 

Ezek. xviii. 26 : When a righteous man turneth away from his 
righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them, for his 
iniquity that he hath done shall he die. 27 : When the wicked 
man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed 
and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul 
alive. 20 : The soul that sinneth it shall die. 

Bom. vi. 23 : For the wages of sin is death. (The danger of 
committing sin is, the blood life probation may then end before 
repentance, then the advocate Jesus Christ cannot help us : it 
is dangerous business for any one to commit a known wilful sin. 
Errors are not sins, but the intentional wrongdoer sins.) 

Mai. iii. 14 : Ye have said it is vain to serve God ; and what 
profit is it. 15 : And now we call the proud happy ; yea, they 
that work wickedness are set up. ,16. Then they that feared (to 



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do wrong) the Lord spake often one to another ; and the Lord 
hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written 
before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon 
his name. 17 : And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, 
in that day when I make up my jewels, and I will spare them as 
a man spareth his own son that serveth him. 18 : Then shall 
ye discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him 
that serveth God, and him that serveth him not. iv. 1 : For 
behold the day cometh that shall burn as an oven ; and all the 
proud, yea, and all that do wickedly shall be stubble ; and the 
day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that 
it shall leave them neither root nor branch. On the subject of 
religion, mankind have in all ages been prone to run into ex- 
tremes. While some have been disposed to attach too much im- 
portance to mere exertions of the human intellect, and to im- 
agine that man, by the light of unassisted reason, is able to ex- 
plore the path of true wisdom and happiness, the greater part 
of religionists, on the other hand, have been disposed to treat 
even truthful scientific knowledge, in its relation to religion, with 
a degree of indifference bordering upon contempt. Both of these 
dispositions are equally foolish and preposterous. For he who ex- 
alts human reason, like the naturalists and free-thinkers, as the only 
sure guide to wisdom and felicity, forgets that man, in a state of 
nature unspirit born of immortal life spirit wisdom, in his present 
state is a depraved intelligence, that cannot comprehend himself: 
his powers of mind, the intellectual soul spirit egg germ in its 
quiescent undeveloped life, like the nature life egg unimpregnated 
and quickened with blood life ; yet a faint idea of the glorious 
wisdom and intellectual joys of a spirit fledged heavenly spirit de- 
veloped life, freed from its blood life body shell ; by looking at the 
fowl's egg before, and a like one after being sat on by the fowl some 
three weeks, when the living chick bird breaks through its shell, 
and soars to freedom, if that egg was impregnated by milt life ; 
if not, then break the shell, no life is there, a resurrection of rot- 
tenness is all that rises. 

Thus the soul spirit egg mind of mortals, if unimpregnated by 
immortal spirit life from Grod, the Father of all holy immortal 
spirits. But the soul spirit egg mind differs materially from the 
nature egg, because while warmed by nature life's heart blood it re- 
members, thinks, and reasons, draws deductions, makes choice, 
or rejects ; and the naturalist religionist, nor the free-thinker, 

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can comprehend it, more than boundless space in which earth 
revolves, and they move ; neither can they comprehend the work- 
ings of life's surrounding nature life, animate or inanimate ; how 
it is that matter lives and grows by expansion of body and by 
expansion of life impartations ad infinitum, as it were, before their 
mortal nature eyes ; yet they will reason that it is not reasonable 
to ask them to believe what they cannot comprehend ; and 
they comprehend none of the works and ways of Grod essential 
to their future existence, and consequently are sure to err ; none of 
them attain to any benefits to our race. 

During a period of near six thousand years, the greater part 
of the human race have been left solely to the guidance of their 
nature life powers, in order to grope their way to the temple of 
knowledge and the portals of immortality ; but what has been 
the result of their anxious researches ? Instead of acquiring correct 
notions of the great Author of their existence, and of the nature 
of that homage which is due to his perfections, they have become 
vain in their imaginations of their foolish heart's blood life. 

Matt. xi. 39 : He that findeth his life shall lose it. If a 
man's whole life object is to make dollars, he will be running 
against those who are making dollars. If the woman is like the 
man, the same results. If their whole object is to get applause, 
they will run against competitors, who are seeking applause. The 
fashions and maxims of this transitory world rapidly change ; sick- 
ness, sorrows, disappointments, and death, all quickly follow ap- 
plause. To-day the masses of silly blood life devotees cr}^ Hosanna ! 
to-morrow, Crucify ; to-day, Great is Diana of the Ephesians ! 
to-morrow, Great is the Pope of Kome ! all are but as soap-bubble 
applause. But spirit born holy children of God partake of im- 
mortality ; they are filled with spirit love life immortal new spirit 
being desires in their soul minds new creature, that rises in power 
flight angelic high over all earthly blood life aspirants. Such are 
not interrupted in their flight heavenward : they, like the eagles, 
soar on high and find no towering men creed church spire or tower, 
or lofty proud barren earthly mountains ; they soar in faith which 
worketh by love, above all earth creed's bickerings of hatred 
against competitors ; they leave the dead armies of combating 
warriors of earth in their graves, and their corruption uncleanness 
to the cleansing fire flood that consumes at time's close this earth ; 
they worship no demon myth god hyena, that vulture like and 
worm like feeds upon dead bodies, nor creed myth god of pagan 



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priests embalmed Egyptian mummy resurrection to life of em- 
balmed brainless mummies : or excrements of worms, vultures? 
formed by myths insane men creeds demon god of revenge hatred 
eternal, that again would put back the dead mortals into their 
earth house of vegetables, fruits, and meats, of earth, that had 
mouldered back to earth elements, and gases, through corruption 
death : to torture and burn the dead ad infinitum, for their sins 
of brief blood life's probation. Is it not enough that they are dead, 
soul and body, and excluded from the immortal life joys of the 
spirit born children of God ; in the endless spirit heavens of love 
who think no evil ? 

1 Cor. xiii. 5, 6 : And rejoiceth in the truth ; they are above 
all obstructions (some preachers change their political men creeds, 
for higher salary call ; if they lived in a higher atmosphere, nearer 
Christ, nearer the throne of God, in spirit love's faith, no earth 
calls would disturb them.) Cruelty to animals is horrid ; cruelty 
to mortals' dead bodies infinitely worse. 

1 Cor. i. 27, 28 : But God hath chosen the foolish things of the 
world to confound the wise ; and God hath chosen the weak things 
of the world to confound things which are mighty (the dead blood 
life, Christ's crucified body, weak and helpless in fleshy body 
strength : confounding the prince and power of the air, the power 
unclean spirit of darkness the devil prince, that shall come to 
naught: ii. 6). And the base things of the world, and things 
which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are 
not (spirit births, new creatures in Christ), to bring to naught 
things that are (the blood life body, at death, is brought to naught, 
dust, Isa. v. 24.) 29 : That no flesh should glory in his presence. 

Jud. vii. 2 : And the Lord said unto Gideon, the people that 
are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into 
their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine 
own hand hath saved me. 16: And Gideon divided the three 
hundred men into three companies, and he put a trumpet (not 
men's - sword, or gun power) in every man's hand, with empty 
pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers. 18: When I blow the 
trumpet, I and all that are with me, then blow ye the trumpets, 
and say, The sword of the Lord and of Gideon. 

1 Cor. i. 22 : The Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after 
(worldly) wisdom. 23 : But we preach Christ crucified, unto the 
Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness. To 
preach about a crucified dead man was foolishness to the unspirit 



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born Greek, and the whole spirit life plan of salvation is to all 
unbelievers, in their dead, or void of spirit love life immortal, soul 
mind, or spirit egg mind in a state of Adamic nature blood life of 
the flesh, with a spiritually dead in trespass and sin soul mind. 

Gen. ii. 17: In the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely 
die. Eve and Adam eat of the stolen forbidden lust sin fruit, and 
died a spiritual death ; or broke by rebellion their allegiance love 
covenant to God. 

Eph. ii. 1 : And you (spirit born children of God) hath Christ 
quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins. The soul is a 
female to produce. Ps. xxxiv. 2 : My soul maketh her boast in 
the Lord : the humble hear thereof and are glad. The mind is the 
spirit egg in an undeveloped state, void of spirit life immortal, 
like the she fowl's egg: which unquickened by the male seed has 
no life germ, and set on will produce no life whatever : rottenness 
stench is all that is resurrected therefrom. Thus with the spirit 
mind egg in the soul : Christ sows the life quicken love life im- 
mortal seed in the soul, and quickens to life the egg mind, when 
the soul's will door is opened by faith which worketh by love, 
then belief love life immortal peace quickens to life the mind, and 
produces by souls spirit birth (John iii. 5. The seed sown by 
Christ: Matt. xiii. 37, 38. A new creature : 2 Cor. v. 17). A 
new creation of immortal life love spirit beings, as distinct from 
Adamic blood life beings, as was the first Adamic creation, sen- 
tenced to death dust. 

Gen. iii. 19 ; Eccl. xii. 7 ; 1 Cor. i. 24 : But unto them which 
are called, both Jews and Greeks (and all Gentiles), the power 
of God, and wisdom of God. Churches with kingly earth powers 
to lord it over God's heritage Christ did not choose : and popes 
of Rome in power deluged the earth with blood, under the insane 
pretence of being like Mahomet, the vicegerent of God, infallible 
with poor fallible Peter's keys of heaven and hell, as if they were 
friends with Christ and the devil prince, the latter their mur- 
derers, inquisition tortures gave ocular proofs of for some twelve 
hundred and sixty years : from 538 to 1798, when their power 
was broken by Bonaparte. The Church of Borne, and all other 
man-power churches void of love of Christ, hurl as heretics all 
who question their infallible man creeds : to-day the same inquisi- 
tion hate power of dominant officials would hurl from their church 
any priest or lay members as heretics who would use God's Scrip- 
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Roman Catholic and pagan men-creed traditions ; as did the 
Church of Home, Martin Luther, Melanchthon, John Huss, John 
Calvin. Henry VIII., King of England, etc., etc. The same 
spirit was in the New England church of the Puritans, Congre- 
gational, who hung the Quakers and drowned the poor old ladies 
as witches, and heresy cries the churches of every name on earth 
to-day of man-power, against all reformers of erroneous creeds of 
men, that flatly contradict Cod's Scripture spiritual truths. No 
church on earth, nor all the church-members, popes, cardinals, 
bishops, preachers, and lay membership on earth ever did, nor can 
they without Christ, the Holy Ghost, save one soul from death. 

Zech. iv. 6 : Not. by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, 
saitli the Lord of hosts. 

1 Cor. i. 30 : But of God, a spirit sovereign supreme of the 
universe, infinite in life, love, power, and beatific glory infallible : 
in whom we live, move, and have our being, and without whose 
permission no mortal can live, move, or have a being : to whom be 
all glory as father of all spirit beings, immortal in life, love, light, 
and truth (Heb. xii. 9). 

Matt. v. 10 : Blessed are they that are persecuted for righteous- 
ness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Persecution may 
be considered as rejection, as heresy, spiritual communications to 
the humblest lay member of a church, which as a plowshare 
turns over and exposes by Scripture truths the false men-manu- 
factured creeds fallible of churches ; the cry of heresy had its 
origin in the devil, and ocularly demonstrated by the Roman 
Catholic inquisition murderers of Cod's children as heretics ; the 
same devil spirit, unclean, alone leads vain, fallible, self-power 
preachers and laymen to cry to-day heresy, if their false doctrine 
creeds are exposed by God's chosen weak worm with which he 
would thrash the church mountain sins of self-sufficiency, in the 
infallible man Diana of the Ephesians, or pope, whose creed tradi- 
tions fallible they adhere to, instead of God's infallible Scripture 
spirit truths, which they desire to make nature blood life a par- 
ticipant of, beyond its death dust in their own body resurrected 
to heaven ; and all heretics, they as self-appointed inquisitors 
judge, would keep alive in hell fire tortures endless ; for whose 
benefit, or for what end of justice ; they have nothing but cruelty 
the most horrid devils could invent, for the poor dead animal 
body they would raise from the dead to torture. Verily, Bergh, 
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for them : and may God have mercy on all hell fire worshipers, 
and resurrectors of rotten bodies to burn, or store heaven with ! 

John iv. 24: God is a Spirit, and they that worship him must 
worship him in spirit and in truth. What sad work Turks, Jews, 
Roman Catholics, and other professors of Christianity have made 
on earth, which is indeed a reproach of great magnitude to that 
holy name, persecution for trying to get men to believe the Scrip- 
ture truths, which they falsely by their persecutions claim to believe. 
However, the persecuted have this comfort in the midst of all their 
sufferings, they are blessed of Christ, their Lord, who himself 
suffered for them, and he promises them the kingdom of heaven. 
By which doctrine it may be safely concluded that God's spirit 
children of love never persecuted any, nor killed any one. 

Matt. x. 38 : And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth 
after me, is not worthy of me. The way of the cross is spiritual, 
that is an inward submission of the soul to God, and by faith 
love seeking through Christ, the Holy Ghost, spirit birth, of God 
the Father of spirits ; which new spirit life being crosseth and 
restrains their fleshy lusts and sinful desires. 

SOULS. 

Gen. ii. 7 : Man became a living soul. 

Gen. xxxv. 18 : Her soul was in departing (she died). 

Lev. iv. 2 : If a soul sin through ignorance. 

Lev. v. 1 : If a soul sin, and hear the voice of swearing. 

Lev. vi. 2 : If a soul sin, lie. 

Lev. xvii. 11 : For the life of the flesh is the blood ; and I have 
given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls ; 
for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul. 

Lev. xxii. 11 : If the priest buy any soul with his money. 

Lev. xxiii. 30 : Whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in 
that same day, the same soul will I destroy. 

Num. xxx. 4 : She hath bound her soul. 2 : If a man vow 
unto the Lord, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he 
shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth. 

Num. xxxi. 28 : One soul of five hundred, both of the persons, 
and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the sheep. 

Deut. xi. 13 : Love the Lord your God, and to serve him with 
all your soul. 18 : Lay up these words in your soul. 

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(false) prophet (or preacher of other than Scripture truths of 
Grod), for the Lord Grod proveth your soul love. 

1 Sam. xviii. 1 : Soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of 
David. 

2 Sam. xiii. 39 : And the soul of David longed to go forth unto 
Absalom. 

1 Kings viii. 48 : If thy people return unto thee with all their 
soul. 

1 Kings xvii. 21 : Let this child's soul come into him again. 

2 Kings xxiii. 3 : And all their soul keep the covenant written 
in the Bible truths. 

1 Chron. xxii. 19 : Set your soul to seek the Lord your Grod. 

2 Chron. vi. 38 ; xv. 12 : And they covenanted to seek the 
Lord Grod with all their soul. 

Job iii. 20 : Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, 
and life unto the bitter in soul ? 

Job. xii. 10 : In God's hand is the soul of every living thing, and 
the breath of all mankind. 

Job xxiv. 12 : The soul of the wounded crieth out. 

Ps. xix. 7 : The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul ; 
the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. 

Ps. xxxiii. 19 : To deliver their soul from death. 

Ps. xxxiv. 2 : My soul shall make her boast in the Lord ; the 
humble shall hear thereof and be glad. 22 : The Lord redeem- 
eth the soul of his servants. 

Ps. xlix. 8 : For the redemption of the soul is precious, and it 
ceaseth forever (no more sacrifices for sin). 

Ps. lxxi. 23 : My soul, which thou hast redeemed, lxxii. 14 ; He 
shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence, lxxviii. 50 : He 
spared not their soul from death. 

Ps. lxxxvi. 4 : Rejoice the soul of thy servant ; for unto thee, 
Lord, do I lift up my soul. 

Ps. xciv. 21 : They gather themselves together against the soul 
of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood. 22 : But the 
Lord is my defence ; and my Grod is the rock of my refuge. 

James i. 21 : Receive with meekness the engrafted word, which 
is able to save your souls. 

Ezek. xiv. 14 : Noah, Daniel, and Job, should deliver but their 
own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord Grod. 

Ezek. xviii. 4 : The soul that sinneth, it shall die. 

Acts ii. 41 : There were' added about three thousand souls. 



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Isa. liv. 5 : For thy maker is thy husband : the Lord of 
Hosts is his name, and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel ; the 
God of the whole earth shall he be called ; thus, the Lord Jesus 
(Matt. xiii. 37, 38) sows the spirit love of God immortal life 
seed of the Father of spirits that live immortal : Heb. xii. 9. In 
the her (female, spirit body) : Ps. xxxiv. 2. Which by the, 
brooding spirit, light, love, of the Holy Ghost, Christ Jesus, word 
love of God, is spirit born of the souls mind spirit egg. 

John iii. 5 : And is a spirit. And a new (creation) creature 
in Christ : 2 Cor. v. 17. A son, and child of God : 1 John iii. 
1, 2, 10; v. 18. Begotten and born of God ; having God's spirit 
love : 1 John iv. 16. Rom. viii. 9 : The spirit (love) of Christ. 

Isa. Iv. 3 : Incline your ear, and come unco me ; hear, and your 
soul shall live, and I will make an everlasting covenant with you. 
6, 7 : Seek the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him 
while he is near ; let the wicked fors&ke his way, and the un- 
righteous man his thoughts, and let him return unto the Lord and 
he will have mercy upon him, and to our God, for he will abund- 
antly pardon. 8 : For my thoughts are not your thoughts, 
neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord ; for as the heavens 
are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your (men 
creed tradition) ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. As 
the rain cometh down, and watereth the earth, and maketh it to 
bring forth seed to the sower, and bread to the eater, so shall my 
(Scripture truths) word be that goeth forth of my mouth : it shall 
not return to me void. 

Isa. lvi. 7 : My house shall be called a house of prayer for all 
people (not for the rich only, but for the humble poor), Matt. xi. 
5. x. 28 : Fear him that can destroy the soul. 

Ezek. xviii. 4, 20 : All souls are God's ; the soul that sinneth, 
it shall die. 

Hos. ix. 1, 4: Rejoice not, Israel, for joy, as other people; 
for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God ; for their bread for 
their soul shall not come into the house of the Lord. Thorns 
shall be in their tabernacles. The priest is a snare in all his ways, 
and hatred in the house of his God. 17 : My God will cast them 
away, because they did not hearken unto him, and they shall be 
wanderers among the nations, x. 1 : Israel is an empty vine (no 
fruit). 

Acts iii. 23 : Every soul which will not hear that prophet 
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Heb. x. 39 : But we are not of them who draw back unto per- 
dition, but of them that believe to the saving of the soul. 

James v. 20 : He which converteth a sinner (in or outside of 
the church record) from the error of his way shall save a soul 
from death. 

1 Pet. ii. 11: Abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against 
the soul. 

Rev. xvi. 3 : Every living soul died in the sea. 

Job xxvii. 8 : What is the hope of the hypocrite when God 
taketh away his soul ? 14 : If his children be multiplied, it is 
for the sword. 15 : Those that remain of him shall be buried in 
death. 19 : The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be 
gathered ; he is not. 

Job xxxiii. 22 : His soul draweth near unto the grave, and his 
life from the destroyers (warriors). 27 : If any man say, I have 
sinned, he will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his 
life shall see the light. Lo, all these things worketh God often- 
times with man, to bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlight- 
ened with the light of the living. 

Job xxxiv. 15 : All flesh shall perish together, and man shall 
turn again unto dust. 

Ps. lxxxix. 48 : What man (unspirit-born) liveth, and shall not 
see death ? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave ? 

Prov. xxiii. 14 : Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and deliver 
his soul from hell (the grave). 

Matt. xvi. 25, 26 : Whosoever will save his (blood) life shall 
lose it ; and whosoever will lose his (blood) life for my sake shall 
find it (spirit love birth of soul mind life immortal). 26 : For 
what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose 
his own soul ? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul ? 

Acts ii. 30, 31 : Christ's soul was not left in hell (the grave), 
neither did his spirit (begotten) see corruption (as Adam's seed). 

Gen. xii. 13 : And my (Abram) soul shall live because of thee. 
xix. 20 : Oh, let me (Lot) escape to Zoar, and my soul shall live. 

Gen. xxvii. 4 : That my soul (Isaac's) bless thee before I die. 

Gen. xlix. 6 : my (Jacob's) soul, come not thou into their 
fwar) secrets. 

1 Sam. i. 15 : I have poured out my soul before the Lord. 

2 Sam. iv. 9 : The Lord hath redeemed my soul. 

Job ix. 21 ; x. 1 : My soul is weary of my (blood) life : I will 
speak in the bitterness of my soul. 

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Job xix. 2 : How long will ye vex my soul? 

Job xxvii. 2 : The Almighty hath vexed my soul (left Job to 
be tempted, etc.). 

Job xxx. 15, 25 : Was not my soul grieved for the poor ? 

Ps. iii. 2 : Many say of my soul, there is no help for him in 
God. 

Ps. vi. 4 : Lord, deliver my soul ; save me for thy mercies' 
sake. 5 : For in death there is no remembrance of thee. 

Ps. xvi. 10 : Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell (the grave). 

Ps. xxiii. 3 : He restoreth my soul. 

Ps. xxv. 1 : Unto thee, Lord, do I lift up my soul. 20 : 
keep my soul, and deliver me. 

Ps. xxvi. 9 : Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with 
bloody men. 

Ps. xxx. 3 : Lord, thou hast brought up my soul from the 
grave ; thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to 
the pit. 

Ps. xxxiv. 2 : My soul shall make her boast in the Lord. 

Ps. xxxv. 3 : Say unto my soul, I am thy salvation. 

Ps. cxix. 175 : Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee. 

Ps. lxvi. 9 : God holdeth our soul in life. 

Acts xvii. 28 : In God we live, move, and have our being ; out 
of him (his life light) we would be dead. 

Ps. xxii. 29 : They that go down to the dust shall bow before 
the Lord (every knee shall bow), and none can keep alive his own 
soul. 30 : A seed (Matt. xiii. 37, 38 : Christ sows) shall serve him 
(spirit born holy). 

Ps. cxx. 1-7 : Deliver my soul, Lord, from lying lips, and 
from a deceitful tongue. I am for peace ; but when I speak, they 
(men creed worshipers of dead bodies and hell fire) are for war. 

Luke xii. 20 : Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required 
of thee. 

Ps. xcvii. 10 : The Lord preserveth the souls of his saints. 

No scripture that souls are immortal. 

CHRIST THE SPIRIT PRINCE OF PEACE AND IMMORTAL LIFE 

LOVE. 

Isa. liv. 13 : And all God's (spirit soul mind begotten) children 
shall be taught of the Lord (not college-bred, and taught of hea- 
then philosophers ; nor by titled popes or D.D.'s) ; and great peace 



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John xiv. 27 ; xvi. 33, have God's children. Isa. liv. 5 : For 
thy maker is thy husband. His spirit word begets the spirit 
son, and child of God. 

1 John iii. 1, 2, 10; iv. 16; v. 18: We know that whosoever 
is born of God sinneth not : but he that is begotten of God (thy 
husband : of the her female soul). 

Ps. xxxiv. 2 : My soul shall make her boast in the Lord : the 
humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. 8 : taste and see that 
the Lord is good : blessed is the man that trusteth in him. 10 : 
They that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing. 11 : 
Come ye children (of the Lord) hearken unto me, keepeth him- 
self, and the wicked one toucheth him not. 1 John v. 19 : And 
we (spirit-born of God, holy and immortal) know that we are 
of God, and the whole world (all Adam's sin lust race, Ps. li. 5). 
Unbegotten and unborn of God lieth in wickedness (sentenced to 
death). 

Rom. vi. 23 : The wages of sin is death ; but the gift of God 
is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. 1 John v. 20 : This 
is the true God, and eternal life. 

Heb. xii. 9 : We have had fathers of our flesh (blood life) 
which corrected us, and we gave them reverence ; shall we not 
much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live ? 
(Clearly showing all others of Adam's race die, as sentenced.) 

Gen. iii. 19 : And return to dust earth elements. 

1 Cor. xv. 48 : As is the earthy, such are they also that are 
earthy. And as is the heavenly (spirits : John iv. 24 : God is a 
spirit, like begets its like), such are they that are heavenly. 

Matt. xiii. 37, 38 : Good seed (spirit) children of the (spirit) 
kingdom, (of God) sown by Christ, spirit-born. 

John iii. 5 : (or) He cannot enter into the (spirit) kingdom of 
God. 6 : That which is born of the flesh is flesh ; and that which 
is born of the spirit (word of God) is spirit. 

Rom. viii. 9 : But ye (spirit-born of God) are not in the flesh, 
but in the spirit (soul mind). If so be that the spirit of God 
dwell in you (1 John iv. 16 : God is love; and he that dwell in 
love (spirit love life immortal) dwelleth in God, and God in him. 
Herein is our love made perfect, — because as Christ is, so are we 
in this world). Now if any man have not the spirit of Christ, he 
is none of his. 10 : And if Christ (spirit love) be in you the 
body is dead (sentenced to death, Gen. iii. 19) because of sin ; 
but the spirit is life (immortal), because of righteousness. 



112 DAY THOUGHTS. 

1 Cor. xv. 23 : Christ the first fruits : afterward they that are 
Christ's. 

John xv. 1 : I (Christ) am the true (spirit life immortal) vine, 
and my father is the (spirit life immortal husband) husbandman. 
4 : As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in 
the vine, no more can ye, except ye abide in me. 5 : I am the 
vine, ye are the branches ; he that abideth in me (spirit love), and 
I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit ; for without me ye 
can do nothing. 

JESUS' SERMON BY THE SEASIDE. 

Matt. xiii. 4 : Some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls 
came and devoured them. 5 : Some fell upon stony places, where 
they had not much earth : they had no root, they withered. 7 : 
Some fell among thorns ; and the thorns sprang up, and choked 
them. 8 : But others fell on good ground (meekness, love, faith), 
and brought forth fruit. 

The wicked is like the wild forest, and evil weeds, that produce 
no fruit. 

Matt. xiii. 9 : Who hath ears to hear, let him hear. 10 : And 
the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto 
them in parables ? He answered and said unto them, Because it is 
given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven ; 
but to them it is not given. 12: For whosoever hath (spirit 
birth life immortal, gift of the spirit Father of spirits immortal: 
Heb. xii. 9 ; Tim. vi. 16 : Who only hath immortality to give), to 
them shall more spirit wisdom light knowledge be given. But 
whosoever hath not (spirit life immortal gift from G-od) from them 
what knowledge they have shall perish with their nature body 
blood life in death. The wages of sin is death ; but the gift of 
God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord (Rom. vi. 23). 

Those who use not their memory soon become forgetful. Those 
who write a declamation, and read a form of ceremonial words oft 
repeated, year after year, never become preachers, nor praying 
mind intellect worshipers of Glod. 

Matt. vi. 7 : When ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the 
heathen do (so does the church founded by Henry VIIL, king of 
England, which has used repetitions the same for scores of years. 
Use memory, and it develops into usefulness to the righteous: 
use your intellects in preaching ; praying short, speaking in testi- 
mony of the truth of your spirit birth, if you have the spirit 



DAY THOUGHTS. 113 

baptism of Christ the Holy Ghost ; if you have not you are none 
of his (Rom. viii. 9). 

Will used in any way forms the man, woman, or child ; an un- 
governable will is like the beasts that perish. 

Ps. xlix. 12 : Man being in honor abideth not : he is like the 
beasts that perish. 19 : They shall never see light (after death). 
20 : Man that . . . understandeth not (spirit birth wisdom from 
God) is like the beasts that perish. 15 : But God will redeem 
my soul from the power of the grave ; for he will receive me (at 
blood life's death). 

Anger is like the fire, a hard master ; and like a ravenous beast 
if left untamed by love. An angry rebuke makes the child worse, 
and aids the ingrowth of anger and hatred. 

Prov. xv. 1 : A soft answer turneth away wrath ; but grievous 
words stir up anger. — The Quaker parents say mildly, Robert, 
James, John, Mary, etc., sit down and be quiet. 

Ps. cxix. 175 : Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee. 165 : 
Great peace have they which love thy law ; and nothing shall offend 
them. 

1 Timothy vi. 16. 

Immortal life is God's alone, 
Father's spirit-love Christ hath sown, 
In soul minds who through faith believe, 
Such loves immortal life receive. 

Lift up your eyes on high ; behold 
Who created these things of old ; 
Bringest out their vast host numbers, 
When day dies, and nations slumbers. 

Life expands in all seeds for bread, 
Thus God commanded earth, and said, 
Let earth bring forth grass yielding seed, 
On -which animate bodies feed. 

Spirit-born souls new creature life, 
Breathe love's atmosphere free from strife; 
Such pulsate love and holiness, 
Life immortal, which God doth bless. 

God is love, and love is his Son, 
And Holy Spirit, in love one ; 
Thus spirit-born abide in love, 
Abide in God, and Christ above. 
10* 



114 DAY THOUGHTS. 

"Without me ye can nothing do," 
Said Jesus, his word ever true ; 
None is immortal, of Adam's race, 
Unless Christ's love life they embrace. 

Great God, all nations are with thee, 
As empty space value I see 
Recorded by prophet of old, 
Who, inspired by thee, truth told. 

Matter that mortal man may view, 
With telescopic vision true, 
Like earth, thy starry flag unfurls; 
Sins nations into chaos hurls. 



Hebrews xii. 9. 

Father of spirits, God o'er all, 
Sovereign supreme, saints Father call ; 
Creation word power son of love, 
Redeemer, Saviour, Lord above. 

All God's works silently proclaim, 
And render glory to his name ; 
God's book of nature I revere, 
They teach his power ever near. 

The Lord God formed man of the dust, 
And gave him breath of life in trust; 
Then from Adam the Lord made Eve, 
Whose soul egg mind evils conceive. 

Love heaven's life, oxygen air, 
That all breathe pure tha 1 " heaven share; 
God's spirit-breath that Jesus brought, 
That Grace bestows when by faith sought. 

They that of God are spirit-born, 
On earth Christ's love seed doth adorn ; 
No others can immortal be, 
On earth land or upon the sea. 

The wicked soul's life-lamp expires, 
With blood life's sinful vain desires ; 
Without Christ's spirit soul-life love, 
No mortal's soul mind lives above. 



COMMENTARIES. 



A SON, AND CHILD OF GOD, BY SPIRIT BIRTH. (JOHN ill. 5.) 

John i. 12 : But as many as received Christ, to them gave he 
power to become the sons of God. 

John iv. 24 : God is a Spirit ; and they that worship him 
must worship him in spirit and in truth. 

John v. 41 : I receive not honor from men. 

Matt, xxiii. 5 : All their works they do for to be seen of men. 
(Read formal selected words, and call them prayers, heard by 
mortals' ears.) 8 : Be not ye (children of God) called rabbi. 
(D.D., etc.) 9 : And call no man your father upon the earth : 
for one is your Father, which is in heaven. 10 : Neither be ye 
called masters : for one is your master, even Christ. 1 1 : But he 
that is greatest among you shall be your servant. 

Bom. viii. 14 : For as many as are led by the spirit of God, 
they are the sons of God. 19 : For the earnest expectation of the 
creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. 

Gen. vi. 2 : Sons of God, etc. (Job i. 6 ; ii. 1 ; xxxviii. 7 ; 
Hos. i. 10.) 

Phil. ii. 15 : That ye may be blameless, and harmless, the sons 
of God. 16: Holding forth the word of life, as lights in the 
world. 

1 John iii. 1,2: Behold what manner of love the Father (of 
soul mind spirits : Heb. xii. 9) hath bestowed upon us, that we 
should be called the sons of God. Therefore the world knoweth 
us not, because it knew him not (Gen. iv. 1 : Adam knew Eve : 
thus God's spirit word knows, quickens, into immortal spirit life 
the her soul spirit egg mind : Ps. xxxiv. 2). Now are we the 
sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be. But 
we know that when Christ shall appear, we (spirit born sons of 
God) shall be like him. 8 : He that committeth sin is of the 
devil. 9 : Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin : for 
Christ's seed remaineth in him ; and he cannot sin, because he is 

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116 MATTHEW I. 

born of God. 10 : In this the children of God are manifest, and 
the children of the devil. Whosoever doeth not righteousness is 
not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother. 
1 John v. 18 : Begotten and born of God. 

im: .a. t t ih: :e sw. 
Chapter I. 

1 . The genealogy of Jesus Christ. 

18. Mary's miraculous conception by way of God's spirit word 
promise. Gen. iii. 15; Heb. ii. 14. 

The spirit word Son of God, the Sovereign of the created uni- 
verse, appeared in human form to Moses, Abraham, Gideon, Elijah, 
and others, at various times and on various occasions. As a gar- 
ment he assumed the human form, and put it off again at will (Job 
x. 11). 

As Eve was made of Adam (Gen. ii. 22), thus woman's seed 
egg of nature, that is the initial development of all animate life on 
earth, in the Virgin Mary was caused by the spirit word spoken 
after the fall. 

Gen. iii. 15 : The woman's seed should bruise the serpent's 
head, and Jesus' body was thereby spirit begotten, as all soul 
spirit mind eggs must in like manner be impregnated with God's 
spirit, to become immortal. 

Ps. xxxiv. 2 : My soul shall make her boast in the Lord. 

1 Tim. vi. 13 : I give thee charge in the sight of God, who 
quickeneth all things. 16 : Who only hath immortality, dwelling 
in the light which no man can approach unto ; whom no man 
hath seen nor can see. Jesus' human spirit begotten of woman's 
seed and only begotten body, by way of spirit impregnation word 
of God promise in Eden (Gen. iii. 15), and for the purpose prom- 
ised. Heb. ii. 14 : Forasmuch then as the children (spirit begotten 
children of God, by way of Christ Jesus' good seed). 

Matt. xiii. 37, 38 : The good seed are the children of the 
kingdom. 

John iii. 3 : Except a man be born again he cannot see the 
kingdom of God. 5 : Jesus said, Except a man be born of water 
(repentance) and of the spirit (regeneration immortal life milt 
seed from God in Christ Jesus), he cannot enter into the kingdom 
of God. 6 : That which is born of the flesh is flesh ; and that 
which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 



MATTHEW I. 117 

John iv. 24 : God is a spirit. (Like begets its like, is God's 
universal statute law of liis universe of lighted space, in all its 
boundless heights ; therefore mortals cannot beget immortals. 

1 Tim. vi. 1G : God only hath immortality. And they that 
worship God must worship him in spirit and in truth. (Not by 
mocking his boundless goodness, love, and mercy, with rotten 
body resurrections. (Gen. iii. 19 ; Eccles. xii. 7.) 

Isa. xl. 6 : All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is 
as the flower of the field. 7 : Surely the people is grass. 8 : 
The grass withereth (nature blood life fed on grass products all 
dies), the flower fadeth, but the word of our (the Christian's) God 
shall stand forever. 15 : Nations are as "a drop of a bucket, and 
are counted as the small dust of the balance. 17: All nations 
before him are as nothing, and they are counted to him less than 
nothing and vanity. The prophet viewed Adam and Eve, and 
their sin lust begotten race (Ps. li. 5 : In sin did my mother con- 
ceive me. Behold I was shapen in iniquity) as less than nothing 
in value to him, taking into the account the cost of redemption of 
believers, by way of the crucifixion of Jesus' spirit begotten body 
of the woman's seed egg. 

Heb. ii. 14: Forasmuch then as the children (spirit born of 
Christ's good immortal life spirit word of God in Christ Jesus' 
seed) are partakers (by nature lust sin seed birth) of flesh and 
blood, Jesus also himself likewise took part of the same (spirit be- 
gotten of woman's seed egg, Gen. iii. 15), that through death (of 
that woman seed body blood life sacrifice, John ii. 4) he might 
(thereby) destroy (at the close of time, end of the world, or 
Satan's probation age). 

Matt. xiii. 39, 40 : The tares are the children of the devil, who 
sows them. The harvest is the end of the world ; the reapers are 
the angels. As therefore the tares (foul weeds, emblems of sins 
which fill the soul minds of Satan's tare children) are gathered 
and burned in the fire, so shall it be in the end of this world. 

Mai. iv. 1 : Behold the day cometh that shall burn as an oven ; 
and all the proud, yea, and all (not rebel Jews only, or part of 
Adam's incorrigibly wicked children of Satan's tare seeds, but all 
in the broad way to second death) ; all that do wickedly shall be 
stubble, and the day that cometh (the last day of time, the paren- 
thesis between eternity past and eternity to come) shall burn 
them up, saith the Lord of hosts ; that it shall leave them neither 
root nor branch. 



118 MATTHEW II. 

Ezek. xviii. 4, 20, 24 : The soul that sinneth it shall die ; if they 
repent not before probation blood life of body dies. 26 : When a 
righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and com- 
mitteth iniquity, and dieth in them, for his iniquity that he hath 
done shall he die. 27 : When the wicked man turneth away from 
his wickedness that he hath committed (by repentance while blood 
life's lamp of probation still burns, and seeketh Grod through 
Christ for forgiveness of sins with all their heart, not part ; and 
acknowledges before the gainsaying wicked, and the righteous, 
that they seek for immortal life of Grod, through Christ their 
mediator, and then) doeth that which is lawful and right, he (or 
they) shall save his (or their) soul alive. 

Heb. ii. 14 : Forasmuch then as the children (Christ's good 
seed children, spirit born of Grod's immortality in Christ, by way of 
his spirit birth and as spirit word creation Son of Grod, in original 
and separate spirit essence from the blood life body partaken of by 
him) are partakers of flesh and blood, Jesus also himself likewise 
took part of the same (viz., woman's nature seed egg blood life), 
that through (blood life sacrificial) death he might destroy him 
that had the power of death, that is the devil. 



Chapter II. 



1. Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the 
days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the 
east to Jerusalem, 

Bethlehem. — This city is otherwise called Ephrata and the city 
of David. There is another of the same name in the land of 
Zebulon in Gralilee. Wise men. — Philosophers or astrologers. 

From the east. — Eastward from Judea, perhaps Persia or 
Arabia ; descendants of Abraham by Ishmael. (2 Tim. i. 10 : Is 
now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ.) 

2. Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we 
have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him. 

His star. — Which was some bright extraordinary light in the 
form of, or resembling, a star, which Grod had created to be a sign 
of Christ's birth, that moved those wise men of the east, through 



MATTHEW II. 119 

the spirit influences of the Holy Ghost, to follow the moving 
meteor that mysteriously moved on before them, like the pillar of 
fire by night before the Jews, when they traveled in their journey 
from Egypt to the land of promise, and the pillar of cloud by day. 
The star of Bethlehem was moved by the power of God, and was 
most likely an angel's chariot, or the germ of the spirit paradise, 
New Jerusalem, city of God in heaven. 

3. When Herod the king . had heard these things, he was 
troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. 

4. And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes 
of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should 
be born. 

The chief. — This word is taken here and elsewhere in the 
gospels at large, for the heads of families, and of the divisions of 
the priests, as 1 Chron. xxxvi. 14. Scribes. — These were certain 
men well versed in Holy Scriptures, and did expound them pub- 
licly in the synagogues, and are called of the people, being of every 
tribe of Israel. (1 Chron. ii. 5; 2 Chron. xxxiv. 13; Ezravii. 6, 
11, 12). And were also admitted into public councils, as formerly 
the prophets were. (Jer. xxvi. 11.) 

5. And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judea : for thus 
it is written by the prophet, 

6. And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, art not the least 
among the princes of Juda : for out of thee shall come a Governor, 
that shall rule my people Israel. 

7. Then Herod, when he had privily called the wise men, in- 
quired of them diligently what time the star appeared. 

What time. — It is likely the star did appear two years or there- 
abouts before the birth of Jesus ; and that upon this opinion, that 
the star had risen at the same time that Christ was born, Herod 
caused the little children from two years downward to be slain. 

8. And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Go and search 
diligently for the young child ; and when ye have found him, 
bring me word again, that I may come and worship him also. 

Worship him. — Cloaking his hypocrisy, or devil spirit unclean 
within him, that mortal eyes could not see. Thus to-day the masses 
on earth who hold official stations cloak their secret thefts of 
books and lands, money, etc., led on by lawyers. 

9. When they had heard the king they departed ; and, lo, the 
star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and 
stood over where the young child was. 



120 MATTHEW IT. 

The star. — It seems that it had vanished out of sight some time 
previous, and that it did now show itself again to guide them to 
the spirit begotten Infant, by way of woman's seed. (Gren. iii. 15 : 
Heb. ii. 14.) It was the chariot of the angel of the covenant, or 
some other guardian angel's light chariot, resembling to mortal vision 
a star. Luke i. 30 : And the angel said, Fear not, Mary ; for thou 
hast found favor with Glod. Matt, xviii. 10 : Take heed that ye 
despise not one of these little ones ; for I say unto you, that in 
heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which 
is in heaven. 

10. When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great 

joy- 

11. And when they were come into the house, they saw the 
young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshiped 
him : and when they had opened their treasures, they presented 
unto him gifts ; gold, and frankincen -se, and myrrh. 

Fell down. — On their knees most likely, being impressed by 
divine motion and inspiration. Presented. — It was the custom of 
the Persians not to salute their kings without presenting a gift to 
them, which their custom they here follow in saluting of Christ 
Jesus, our spiritual king. 

12. And being warned of Grod in a dream that they should 
not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another 
way. 

Warned. — By divine revelation ; by way of the star, guardian 
angel of the Lord. 

13. And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord 
appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young 
child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until 
I bring thee word : for Herod will seek the young child to destroy 
him. 

Dream. — Such dreams were the Holy Grhost's testimonies for 
man's assurance. Num. xii. 6 : I, the Lord, will make myself 
known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream. 

14. When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by 
night, and departed into Egypt : 

Departed. — This took place after Mary's purification (Luke ii. 
39). 

15. And was there until the death of Herod : that it might be 
fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet^ saying, 
Out of Egypt have I called my son. 



MATTHEW II. 121 

Which was spoken. — This place referred to Jacob's son Joseph 
and his brethren as Israel, or the church when the children of 
Israel were delivered from Egyptian bondage. But it referred to 
Jesus as the second escape from Egypt, of which the first was an 
allegory, the same as lambs were emblems of Jesus' sacrifice. 

16. Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise 
men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children 
that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two 
years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently 
inquired of the wise men. 

17. Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the 
prophet, saying, 

Was fulfilled. — Herod renewed^ the sorrows which the tribe of 
Benjamin long before had suffered, showing that the powers of this 
world are, in their unsanctified aspiring selfish state, "wholly allied 
to the prince of darkness, and that such as Herod are tare seed 
children of the devil (Matt. xiii. 39, 40), or devils in human form. 

18. In Kama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weep- 
ing, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and 
would not be comforted, because they are not. 

Rama. — This word in itself signifies high ; it is also a city in the 
land of Benjamin. Because. — Or insomuch as they are no more. 

19. But when Herod was dead, behold an angel of the Lord 
appeareth in a dream to Joseph in Egypt. 

20. Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, 
and go into the land of Israel ; for they are dead which sought the 
young child's life. 

21. And he arose, and took the young child and his mother, 
and came into the land of Israel. 

22. But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judea in 
the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither : notwith- 
standing, being warned of Grod in a dream, he turned aside into 
the parts of Gralilee. 

Did reign. — Viz., being declared king by the will of his father 
Herod, but afterwards Augustus brought him to an inferior title 
of ethnarch, or governor of the nation, and took away half his 
kingdom from him. He was a son of Herod the Great, and his 
mother's name was Malthace of Samaria. 

23. And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth : that 
it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall 
be called a Nazarene. 

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122 MATTHEW III. 

By the prophets. — Judges xiii. 5 : spoken of Samson, who was 
a figure shadow of Jesus, in strength, and being betrayed by Judas, 
like Samson betrayed by his wife. The prophets in their sermons 
thus probably illustrated the nature Samson, and the spiritual 
which infinitely surpassed him in strength. And the opprobrious 
appellation of a Nazarene, given Jesus by the wicked Jews as the 
nickname given Christ of Beelzebub, given him by a popular scorn 
from the name of the despicable city wherein he abode, that per- 
vades the masses of the devil's children who call nicknames and 
blaspheme God's name, and steal, and lie, and slander the children 
of God on earth. 

Nazarene. — That is, holy, and consecrated to God, or flourish- 
ing, and was so named of the city of Nazareth. 



Chapter III. 



1.] In those days. — In the twenty-fifth year of the Emperor 
Tiberius, Jesus' blood life on earth being thirty years old. Came. 
— Viz., sent by God to bear witness of Christ Jesus. The Bap- 
tist. — A Greek name signifying washer, and was a name which 
certain doctors among the Jews bare, who appointed their disciples 
and followers certain corporal washings, and as an enlargement of 
the ceremonial purifications of the law of Moses dispensation ; all 
superstitiously without any calling or command of God, or any 
effect for the soul's regeneration. 

2.] Repent ye. — Prepare yourselves with true grief and sorrow 
for your sins, to receive pardon from God, for ingratitude, adoration, 
and love, not rendered with all the heart, and the expiation of them 
by the true Messias who is already come into the world to re-establish 
God's kingdom in righteousness and peace, to bring salvation to 
such as repent, and final ruin to obdurate rebels (Isa, lvi. 1 ; lix. 
20 ; Mai. iii. 2 ; iv. 2). 

3.] Isa, xl. 3 : The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, 
Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a way 
for our God. This is he. — Namely, John the Baptist. 

4.] Of cameTs hair. — Whereof was made a coarse kind of cloth 
or felt. Locusts. — These were used for food in former times ; and 
at that time, and even now, in China. 



MATTHEW III. 123 

6.] Baptized. — A substitute for circumcision, which was nature 
emblem of the spiritual. Immortal life is not of the body, but of 
Christ's spirit seed sown in the soul (Matt. xiii. 37, 38). 

John iii. 5 : Except a man be born of water and of the spirit he 
cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 6 : That which is born of 
the flesh is flesh ; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 
7 : Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. 
Baptism is not a saving ordinance of water, but of the spirit by way 
of water from the side and heart blood life, drawn by the Roman 
soldier's spear from the side of the Christian's dearly beloved Saviour. 
Acts i. 5 : John truly baptized with water ; but ye shall be baptized 
with the Holy Ghost. Tears of repentance is a baptism of water 
flowing from the mortal eyes, when hearts are burdened with a 
full heart desire for spirit birth, love seed, and peace from the 
Lord Acts ii. 38 ; viii. 12, 16, 17. 1 Cor. x. 1 : All our fathers 
were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea (namely, 
between the seas, on dry ground). 2 : And were all baptized unto 
Moses in the cloud and in the sea. 3 : And did all eat the same 
spiritual meat. 4 : They drank of that spiritual Rock, Christ. 
Exod. xiv. 16, 22, 28 : And the waters returned and covered the 
chariots and the horsemen, and all the hosts of Pharaoh that came 
into the sea after the Israelites (thus Pharaoh was immersed ; but 
the children of Israel were all sprinkled, baptized in the cloud). 
29 : But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst 
of the sea. Luke xxiii. 43 : And Jesus said unto the repentant 
thief on the cross, Verily I say unto thee, to-day shalt thou be 
with me in paradise ; no baptism but the Holy Ghost baptism had 
the repentant thief on the cross. Therefore, it cannot be a saving 
ordinance to immerse in water mortal bodies. The tears of sorrow 
of the penitent repentant thief fully agree with John's prophecy 
(Matt. iii. 11) : I indeed baptize you (sinners) unto repentance 
with water : but he ( Christ Jesus) that cometh after me is mightier 
than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear : he shall baptize you 
with the Holy Ghost and with fire. The thief that wept tears 
of repentance on the cross the Lord Jesus baptized with the Holy 
Ghost, the Spirit of God, or immortal life impregnation spirit birth 
seed, of which in the moment he believed on Jesus Christ as his 
Saviour, he was spirit born, in his converted soul mind egg w T ith 
faith, love, belief in Christ Jesus, and, thereby fulfilling God's 
spirit world life eternal law (he the thief before), that moment 
became a new creature, by way of spirit birth regeneration from 



124 MATTHEW ILL 

Christ's spirit life immortal good seed (Matt. xiii. 37, 38 ; John 
iii. 5, 6) ; and at blood life death his spirit new creature life went 
to paradise. 

7. j Pharisees and Sadducees. — Sects and religious orders among 
the Jews. Pharisees signifieth separate, viz., from the common 
manner of living by a singular study in the law of God, as most 
preachers of the world have ever practiced, viz., to wrest God's 
statute plain laws, and by misconstruction of parables and words 
wrest the Scriptures to their own destruction, and all who follow 
their men tradition false creeds, that like Satan contradict God ; 
when God said to Adam (Gen. ii. 17), In the day (age or pro- 
phetic day of a thousand years (Ps. c. 4 ; 2 Pet. iii. 8) that thou 
eatest of the forbidden fruit, thou shalt surely die (Gen. iii. 4). 
and the serpent (devil) said unto the woman (Eve), Ye shall not 
surely die. (Thus most preach that the devil told the truth that 
the wicked are immortal in hell or heaven, etc.) But God's truth 
says to Adam and Eve (Gen. iii. 19), Dust thou art, and unto dust 
shalt thou return. 22 : And the Lord God said, Lest Adam put 
forth his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live 
forever, therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden 
of Eden to till the ground from whence he was taken ; so he drove 
out Adam, and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden cheru- 
bim and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way 
of the tree of life. Matt. v. 20 : Except your righteousness shall 
exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in 
no case enter into the kingdom of heaven. The Pharisees were 
distinguished from the vulgar by abstinences, disciplines, clothing, 
and other like things. They followed traditions of men creeds, as 
do most preachers at this day, which were contrary toGod's laws of 
truth. The institution might have been laudable in their begin- 
ning, but at the last they degenerated into superstition, errors, 
hypocrisy, pride, and faction. As found to-day, the different sects 
on earth are trying to build a spiritual tower, each to climb above 
the deluge of fire that will consume all the incorrigibly wicked at 
the last day of time's parenthesis between eternity past and eternity 
to come ; thus their discordant creeds are a spiritual Babel, and must 
continue thus to be, until Christ's spirit-born watchmen see eye to 
eye, and drop all their discordant traditions of men creeds, and 
adopt the Bible as their only creed, and spirit birth holiness truth 
and love as the only way to heaven. 

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who wresting the saying of a master of his, that one ought not to 
serve God neither for hope of reward nor fear of punishment, 
brought in epicureanism among the Jews, denying the resurrection 
and the immortality of the soul. 

God does not approve of the Pharisees, who did believe falsely 
in the immortality of the nature mortal, and a resurrection of the 
rotten or dust body. Vipers, people full of poison, malice, such 
as swearers, nicknamers, liars, slanderers, and all manner of sins 
flowing from poison malice, envy, hatred, and a desire to make 
their fellow mortals unhappy, and to lower their fellow beings, 
hoping thereby to exalt themselves. All such persons, whatever 
their pretences to righteousness, are base hypocrites at heart, and 
the devil's tare seed is in their souls, developing an unclean spirit 
child of the devil ; such protrude their lust tongues between their 
lips like the viper serpent that seduced Eve in Eden. 

Who hath. — Words of admiration to see such come, which had 
been previously so evil disposed to receive internal baptism of 
which they came repenting, to receive the sign. Wrath to come. — ■ 
Num. xvi. 21 : That I may consume them (the wicked) in a 
moment (Deut. iv. 24 ; Heb. xii. 29 j Mai. iv. 1 ; Ezek. xviii. 4, 
20, 24, 27). 

8.] Meet for. — Break off from your sins by doing right; repent 
of all your evil ways. 

9.] And think not. — Do not dally with yourselves (as do preach- 
ers' children at this day, 1871), to think because you are issued 
from Abraham according to the flesh, you are in God's favor, and 
free from his judgment ; for with him the imitation of Abraham's 
faith and piety is the only thing which demonstrates and causeth to 
be Abraham's true faith promise children, and not the corporal gene- 
ration. Rom.iv. 12 : Now such faith children spirit born of Christ's 
spirit life immortal seed may be brought forth of all nations. Think 
not that if you perish, God's people shall perish. For G-od's people 
shall always subsist in their faith that worketh by love, promise 
children of Abraham by way of Christ Jesus, who alone hath 
immortal life seed of his Father to impregnate soul mind intel- 
lect spirit eggs with the spirit birth faith's love seed of immortal 
life. 

10.] Now. — Viz., from henceforth God will use no more such 
toleration as he hath done heretofore with you false Jews. Mai. 
iii. 15 : But having proffered his grace in his Son, if you refuse it, 
he will suddenly reject and punish you. The axe. — That is, God's 

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justice fire is approaching, to consume in a moment and utterly 
destroy all who rebel against him as incorrigible sinners. 

11.] / indeed. — Namely, by my preaching, and through my 
whole ministry, whereof baptism is the sacrament, I as the fore- 
runner of God's spirit word creation Son, and only begotten spirit- 
ually from woman's seed egg son, with blood alliance by way of 
Boaz and Ruth, and David, God's anointed king over Abraham's 
seed by nature, and the humble, pious, holy Virgin Mary, in the 
fullness of God's appointed time. His creation word in Eden, 
uttered Gen. iii. 15 : the woman's seed should bruise the serpent's 
head, even to its utter death (Heb. ii. 14). Thus in Boaz a Jew, 
and Ruth a Gentile, all the nations of earth have access to the tree 
of life immortal in the Saviour, who shed on the cross as a sacri- 
fice to infinite justice woman's seed life blood, uncontaminated by 
sin ; that through the woman's seed alliance he thereby could re- 
deem from slavery to the devil by way of rebellion against God's 
statute laws all of Adam's seed who truly repent of all their sins, 
and seek God with all their hearts, and leave forever the com- 
mander-in-chief of the rebel army of hell's broad way army of 
darkness, that each moment draws nearer the bottomless pit of 
outer darkness beneath lighted space ; that will fully culminate on 
the last great judgment day, and close of time and probation. 

12.] Whose fan. — Viz., like the farmer cleaning wheat with a 
fan windmill. He will not only thus purify the souls in which 
his immortal life seed is sown to salvation, from all contaminations 
of sin, but will also cleanse the body of his church from the mix- 
ture of all hypocrites and wicked men, casting them into or setting 
on fire the earth and its surrounding air element and waters, and 
withdrawing his sustaining hand that now holds the earth in its 
appointed place and annual rounds. All the wicked that repent 
not of their evil sinful ways, he will on the last day of time burn 
up with his unquenchable fire in a moment, as chaff (Num. xvi. 
21 ; Luke iii. 17 ; Job xxi. 18; Ps. i. 4; xxxv. 5; Isa. v. 24). 
Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame con- 
sumeth the chaff, so their root shall be rottenness, and their blossom 
shall go up as dust. Because they have cast away the law of the 
Lord of hosts, and despised the word of (Christ Jesus) the Holy 
One of Israel. Mai. iv. 1 : For behold the day cometh that shall 
burn as an oven ; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, 
shall be stubble. And the day that cometh shall burn them up, 
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endless punishment torturer preacher), that it shall leave them 
neither root nor branch (2 Pet. iii. 7, 10 ; Jer. xxiii. 28 ; Dan. ii. 
35 ; Hos. xiii. 3 ; Zeph. ii. 2). And will gather his true believers 
into the kingdom of heaven (Matt. xiii. 37, 38, 41, 49). 

13.] To be baptized. — Not for any sign of need to be purified 
from sin, or in token of repentance, but to fulfill all parts of God's 
service. He participated of all the sacraments, as well new as 
ancient. 

15.] It becometh us. — Obedience to God in all things ought to 
be observed by my blood life body of woman's seed, that is worthy 
of imitation as an example to all who will to take up daily their 
banner of love, and follow my commandments and examples. 

10.] Were opened unto him. — And John saw the Spirit of God 
descending like a dove, and lighting upon him. It was the spirit 
word Son of God, a distinct being from the body of flesh and blood 
from woman's nature life Adamic seed ; but over that only spirit 
begotten body, the spirit word Son of God presided in power which 
was restrained, and love took full charge of the blood life body 
born for the last sacrifice for sin, which had been emblematized by 
Jewish sacrifices, and their ancestors from Abel down to the incar- 
nation ; Christ's immortal life spirit birth seed impregnation must 
all Adam's race partake of, if they would become like him, immortal. 
Like begets its like ; mortals cannot beget immortals, nor thistle 
seeds wheat seeds, nor chaff any life whatever, nor any living, 
moving life without the egg from which they all germinate, be- 
coming impregnated in God's appointed way ; all nature eggs, or 
the soul mind spirit eggs or germs of life, unless impregnated they 
all rot, and produce no life whatever (John i. 33 ; Mark i. 10 ; 
Acts vii. 56 ; x. 11 ; Rev. xix. 11). 

17.] A voice. — This manner of revelation by heavenly articulate 
voices was frequent among God's people after that prophecies ceased, 
whereof there are divers examples in the gospel and histories. 
In whom. — Viz., whom, in the quality of mediator, that fulfills my 
whole will, and satisfies my justice for men, I do perfectly accept 
of in him and for his sake only, for aside from his atonement there 
is no value in all Adam's rebel race. Isa. xl. 17 : All nations are 
before God as nothing ; and they are counted to him less than 
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Chapter IV. 

1.] Of the spirit. — He was thus inclined by the drawing of the 
Holy Ghost within his will powers, that put his body in motion to 
go to the place spoken of (Luke iv. 1). Tempted. — For an exer- 
cise of his humiliation and a trial of the woman's seed blood life 
body intellects on soul minds holiness and righteousness, and of 
his victory over the devil by the holiness power thereof. And to 
give his church or children spirit born of his spirit word promise 
seed, a proof of assured victory against all the endeavors and sub- 
tleties of the evil spirit (Heb. ii. 14, 18 ; iv. 15). The devil. — A 
Greek word answerable to the word Satan, and signifies calumniator, 
as are all nicknames of persons or places, showing that all such 
liars who give false names, Beelzebub for Christ Jesus, Bob for 
Robert, Jack for John, etc., are tare seed legitimate children of 
their father the devil), or malignant false accuser. Zech. iii. 1 : 
And he showed me Joshua, the high priest, standing before the 
angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist 
him. 2 : The Lord rebuke thee, Satan : is not this a brand 
plucked out of the fire? Rev. xii. 10 : the accuser of our breth- 
ren is cast down 9 : The devil and Satan, which deceiveth the 
whole world ; he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were 
cast out with him. Such enter nicknamers' liar hearts and soul 
minds. 

2.] Fasted. — Feeling no want for a trial of his divine power in 
bearing up the woman's seed blood life body spirit begotten, with 
spirit food, unaided by nature life products ; an hungered. When 
the spirit divine power let the woman's seed Adamic human nature 
voluntarily feel the want and discomfort, and so give occasion to 
the temptation of the human nature, for the spirit divine nature 
could not be tempted in any way whatever. 

3.] Tempter. — The devil, who induceth and instigateth men to 
do evil, by using their lusts or appetites or inbred selfishness as 
the most urgent business to be attended to, and suggesting to the 
minds of all that he is permitted to approach what without reflec- 
tion would seem plausible. If thou be. — It seems that the devil 
had two ends in these temptations, the one to draw from Jesus some 
proofs and trials of his connection with a deity, and of the mystery 
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which was denied him, as miracles were to unbelievers and profane 
men. The other was to draw his human nature to sin, either of 
impatience and diffidency in his voluntary obedience, or of pride and 
presumption without vocation or necessity, or of rebellion against 
God. 

4.] Bread. — The life of mortals is not concluded in bread and 
meat, but depends upon the good will and pleasure of God, for 
(Acts xvii. 28) in God we live, and move, and have our being. 
By every. — Viz. : not only by things appointed in nature to nourish 
man, but by all such things as he through his free will doth at- 
tribute such virtue unto. And likewise by his only power and 
will, without any means whatever. 

5.] Taketh him up. — It seems that it was by some swift motion 
through the air, but without any hurt, and that by the permission 
of God, and of Christ himself. The holy. — A title given to the 
city of Jerusalem, by reason of God's ancient presence in his temple, 
and because it is a city that was consecrated to his service, the seat 
of the church, as also to be a sacred nature figure of the spiritual 
kingdom of heaven (Neh. xi. 18 ; Isa. xlviii. 2 ; Matt, xxvii. 53). 
A pinnacle. — The edge of the roof. The roof of the temple being 
flat according to the fashion of those times and places, there was 
round about it a cornice, jutting out, as well for ornament as to 
convey away the rain water; and there, it would seem, the devil 
did set the Lord ; or it was upon the roof of the porch of the temple, 
sixty cubits high (Ezra vi. 3). 

6.] Bear thee up.— That is, they shall take such care of thee, 
that no hurt shall come unto thee. 

7.] Tempt. — Men tempt God when they forsake ordinary means 
lawful, to choose others according to their own fancy. 

8.] Showeth him. — By some vision or illusion, as it appears by 
Luke iv. 5. 

9. 'J Fall down. — So to fall down and worship the devil to-day, 
is such as forsake God's commandments, to honor, riches, and pre- 
ferment, office to receive homage, applause from poor dying worms 
of dust humanity, and thereby receive of mortals titles and to ob- 
tain as to-day among politician lawyers the property of the state 
and government they are sent to administer for by the voters ; and 
the devil puts the same spirit in nearly all lawyers, that he possesses 
himself, and that he puts in his other like children, the gamblers, 
and in horse racers, and party political strife to-day, and for ten 
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of party strife deluged the United States of America, France, Spain 
and many other nations with fraternal death struggles, and the poor 
and the rich all suffer death, and taxations, sorrow and misery. 
Thus, in churches party sect has warred against each other, instead 
of being united as one army, and all their guns being trained 
against the foes of right doing, and not against each other ; if they be- 
long to Christ's army of light, they can if they will easily discern 
the devil's troops, the army of darkness, deception, lies, and frauds, 
who nicknames call to gratify their inward evil nature, whatever 
their outward professions may be. Love works no ill to his neighbor. 
God is love. 

10.] Get thee hence. — Leave me; a command that the devil 
had to obey, for it was power divine that commanded, which, if 
Satan and his hosts' probation time had been closed, as it will be 
with time, Jesus would have said as he then will say, Depart from 
me. Life forever, John vi. 63. 

12.] He departed.- — He went to make his ordinary abode, and 
to teach publicly the way of life. 

14.] That it. — That country which had formerly been deso- 
lated by the Assyrians (Isa. viii. 7), and grew afterwards degen- 
erate in matters of religion, and was mixed with heathen customs 
and nations, was through God's sovereign mercy chosen by Christ 
Jesus for the place of his ordinary abode (Isa. ix. 1). To bring 
into it the light of life immortal grace and truth, and to give a 
beginning to the vocation of the Gentiles. 

1 5.] Galilee of the Gentiles. — Within the confines of Palestine. 

16.] In darkness. — Unsettled and comfortless people have now 
obtained knowledge light that if followed will lead them to Christ 
Jesus, the light of the world, spiritually the sunlight intellect 
spirit rays of wisdom from God who only hath immortal spirit 
life rays to impart by way of Christ Jesus his spirit word Son 
of light that no mortal being can approach unto (1 Tim. vi. 16). 
All unspirit born of God in Christ (John iii. 5, 6) are in spiritual 
darkness that ends, if pursued, in soul death. Ezek. xviii. 4, 20, 
24, 27 : The soul that sinneth it shall die. Rev. xx. 14 ; xxi. 8 : 
Which is the second death. 

17.] The kingdom. — The gift of salvation bestowed upon poor 
sinners, through the mercy and goodness and loving kindness of 
the Father of immortal life being (Mark i. 15). 

18.] The sea. — The Lake Gennesareth ; for the Hebrews call 
that sea where there is a great confluence of waters. 






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Two brethren. — Who had been John the Baptist's disciples, 
and to whom Jesus had revealed himself, and now calls them to 
be his constant followers. 

19.] Fishers of men. — Instruments of converting and drawing 
men to God, out of the sea of the world and sin darkness, and 
out of the abyss of death. (Gal. i. 4 ; v. 6 ; vi. 7, 8, 15.) 

23.] About. — From place to place. Synagogues. — A Greek 
name, which signifies the particular assembly of the Jews for the 
exercise of piety, and the places where they were kept, distin- 
guished from the temple of Jerusalem, where the general assem- 
bly was. Preaching. — Bring them the happy and joyful tidings 
of the coming and manifestation of the Messias, his spiritual 
kingdom, in light, justice, and immortal spirit life, promised to 
the fathers on condition of obedience as good soldiers warring 
against evil sin darkness to his commands, and so long looked for. 
Healing. .] — Emblem of soul restoration by way of spirit birth to 
life immortal ; these signs and miracles were wrought for the con- 
firmation of his doctrine. 

24.] Syria. — Which bordered on those places. 

25. Decapolis. — A little province, so called because it con- 
tained ten cities, and was seated upon the confines of Palestine, 
going towards Syria, (Mark vii. 31.) 



Chapter V. 



3.] The poor. — A Hebrew phrase (Prov. xvi. 19; xxix. 23; 
Isa. lvii. 15) to signify the humble and meek-hearted before God, 
divested of all confidence in themselves, when they feel their mis- 
eries or God's visitations, opposite to the proud, presumptuous and 
cruel men. Kingdom. — Viz., they only are well prepared and 
qualified to receive the gospel of love, and to be members of 
Christ's church and kingdom in grace, and in spirit birth of his 
spirit life immortal seed, received by him of his spirit Father the 
sovereign supreme of the universe, and by this means to enter 
upon or into eternal life, where he reigns in glory. (Matt, xviii. 
3 ; xix. 14 ; xiii. 37, 38 ; John ii. 5, 6.) 



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4.] That mourn. — That is, by a lively displeasure for their 
sins, a voluntary mortification, or by an humble patience in be- 
reavement visitations and trials. (Ps. xxxiv. 18.) 

5.] The meek. — Namely, those who are willing to suffer all 
things, — insulting, oppressive, ungenerous, — rather than revenge 
themselves. Shall inherit. — They shall be re-established in the 
right which Adam had before the fall by sin, disobedience, and 
rebellion against God's just and holy law infallible ; and after 
blood life death, which sentence was pronounced on our first 
parents in Eden (Gen. iii. 19): Dust thou art, and unto dust 
shalt thou return. Then at body death the meek spirit born of 
Christ's good seed, and who endure meekly to blood life's close, 
are then exalted over all their haughty malicious foes to a heav- 
enly paradise that serpents and devils, and wicked unrepentant 
mortals, never enter. No unrepentant swearers, nor nicknamers, 
nor liars. Rev. xxi. 7 : He that overcometh shall inherit all things ; 
and I will be his God and he shall be my son. 8 : But the fear- 
ful, and unbelieving, and the abominable (nicknamers of Jesus 
Beelzebub, etc.), and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, 
and idolaters, and all liars (who give false names to persons or 
places) shall have their part in the lake which burnetii with fire 
and brimstone (like Sodom). Which is the second death ; first, 
blood life body death ; second, death of the soul (Ezek. xviii. 4, 
20, 24, 27). 

6.] Which do hunger. — Viz., which are not filled and puffed up 
with an opinion of their own proper righteousness, and do not feed 
themselves with false food of D.D., and all the various titles of 
popes, and other titles to lord it over God's heritage : when they 
meekly hunger and thirst for heavenly food void of self-aggrandize- 
ment, then when they acknowledge themselves wholly destitute of 
true righteousness which may appear before the judgment of God ; 
and having a lively feeling for holiness to the Lord alone, do fer- 
vently seek it as God's gift in the free pardon of their sins, by 
virtue of the perfect righteousness and satisfaction of Christ, 
which is imputed to them, and is the true begotten of Christ good 
seed spirit born evangelical righteousness (Rom. iii. 22, 26), 
which is the cause of their sanctification and new obedience. 

7.] The merciful. — Which esteem other men's afflictions as their 
own ; and not award them an endless life of hell fire torture, 
while they alone are happy in heaven and not praying that God 
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day of probation time, as the word of God mercifully hath prom- 
ised. Obad. 16 : They shall be as if they had not been. 

Mai. iv. 1 : Behold, the day cometh that shall burn as an oven ; 
and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble. 
And the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of 
hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. 

Num. x. 20 : The Lord said, I have pardoned, according to 
thy word ; but as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with 
the glory of the Lord. The Jews should no longer be exclusively 
favored of God above other nations of the earth. Num. xvi. 20 : 
And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron, saying, Separate 
yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume 
them in a moment. Deut. iv. 23 : Take heed to yourselves lest 
ye forget the covenant of the Lord your God, which he made with 
you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing. 
24 : For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire. It does not take 
God forever to annihilate the wicked, but one moment ends the 
life of his foes. For in God all live, move, and have a being ; 
when probation ends they are consumed in a moment ; out of God's 
sustaining hand all must die. Heb. ii. 14 ; xii. 29 : Our God is 
a -consuming fire : that cannot be quenched. 

8.] The pure. — The holy, sanctified, righteous, and sincere, not 
spotted with the love of sin, some predominating vice, malice, and 
hypocrisy. Shall see. — Shall be admitted to the immediate pres- 
ence and perfect fruition of God's glory, which will appear and be 
communicated full and openly in the kingdom of heaven : oppo- 
site to the small and obscure participation which believers have in 
his grace in this world by faith which apprehendeth things absent 
and to come (1 Cor. xiii. 12 ; 2 Cor. v. 7 ; 1 John iii. 2). 

9.] Peacemakers. — Viz., which endeavor and study to preserve 
peace, and suppress strife and dissension. The children. — Viz., 
because he is the God of peace, not war makers. 

10.] For righteousness 1 sake. — Viz., for the love and defense of 
goodness and right, and chiefly for God's righteous cause, his 
truth, glory, and pure service. The kingdom. — Viz., for a re- 
ward of their labors, and crown of their fights of faith, according 
to God's free promise. 

11.] All manner of evil. — Nicknames, lies, slanders, and all the 
false accusations that their own evil nature bubbles up from un- 
clean devils within them as children of the devil, warring against 
you a child of God by way of spirit birth, of God's immortal life 

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seed in Christ Jesus, sown by him by way of gospel truth promises 
on conditioned faith belief in his truth eternal grace promises of 
immortal life of love and peace. Evil against you falsely. — 
The confirmed debauched drunkard and liar, and prostitute, when 
down in filth of debauchery sin of the lowest dregs of human 
vice filth lies and corruption, are not sensitive to degradation by 
nicknames, drugged and dead in trespasses and sins, their feelings 
are callous ; the dead man feels no pain at the slanderer's word on 
his soul mind intellects dead, nor on his dead body. But the holy 
pure immortal life being born of God's quickening life eternal, 
somewhat like the exalted Son of God, who is the spirit word of 
Almighty God's creation power, in time's creation of suns and 
systems of worlds, how aggrieved must he have felt while on a 
pure mission of love, to be reviled by the nickname Beelzebub. 
And all nicknamers hurt the feelings of those they nickname, 
and a printer that puts Jack, Dick, Harry, etc., as the nick op- 
probrious with devil, familiarity of the lowest slums of vice, 
ought to be imprisoned, to keep them as lepers, away from all 
decent persons. To the nicknamed they are as disgusting (if he 
or she nicknamed is pure in associations) as a dead horse, or 
skunk, comparatively. 

13.] Ye are. — Words directed to the apostles and ministers of 
Christ and all the spirit born holy sanctified children of God, by 
way of Christ's good seed. The meaning is that the masses of 
Adam's rebel seed on earth are servants of the devil, and like him 
liars, and choose darkness rather than light, because their deeds 
are evil. The Christian holy loves the truth, and therefore believes 
God's Scripture truths, and proclaims them to the dying seed of 
sin lust and tare seed children of the devil or evil. The incor- 
rigible wicked man or woman is a devil in human form ; the same 
as Jesus was the son of God in human form, save his body was 
spirit begotten of God's promise word in Eden, that woman's seed 
(egg), in fullness of appointed time, should develop a human body 
form similar to Adam's lust seed race, that by way of spirit God Al- 
mighty alliance seed power, should bruise the serpent's head (Gen. 
iii. 15 ; Heb. ii. 14). And the apostles and ministers, if they or 
any one spirit born of Christ's seed should lose love to God, and 
truth savor, they then like other unrepentant wicked mortals on 
earth are as worthless earthy matter, void of immortal life and 
truth. 

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MATTHEW V. 135 

matter, in preaching the gospel truths intellectual light, in the 
worlds darkness of intellects that were spiritually dead in tres- 
passes and sins, who like the drunkards are bundles of nature 
habits adhered to by way of vicious habits, appetites, and pleasure 
in doing evil, as it were scratching their itching evil nature appe- 
tite of intellectual attainments, by slandering their fellow-beings 
by falsely accusing them of doing wrong, when truth unearthed 
would show them liars ; all nicknamers, and blasphemers, and 
liars, have a mean evil nature, void of pure holy light, of truth, 
holiness, love, that speaketh not nor even thinketh evil (1 Cor. 
xiii. 5) ; all other professors of religion, be they pope or priest, 
are but in truth in all they say as the sound of brass in value on 
earth : the good and evil in such persons is manifest to correct in- 
tellect vision, as a city on a hill to mortal sight. Thus a false un- 
scriptural creed taught by pope or preacher is a mockery to God, 
and their false creeds becomes their mind habits that like the 
drunkard intoxicates their soul minds. 

16.] Your light. — You spirit born children of Christ's good 
seed of life immortal, should by your lives and conversations give 
to all intellectual truth light as to your experimental knowledge 
of the narrow way that leads to immortal life (1 Cor. xiv. 25)„ 
Romans viii. 9 : But ye are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if 
so be that the spirit of Gwd dwell in you. Now if any man 
have not the (love to God supreme, and to their fellow-man as 
themselves the) spirit of Christ, he is none of his. 

17.] To destroy. — To cause them to be thought false or unprofit- 
able, to propound a doctrine contrary to them. To fulfill. — Ob- 
serving the law in all points myself, and bringing to pass all that 
was foretold by the prophets, and putting in force the right of the 
law, viz., to require a perfect obedience and its promise, which is 
to give life to them that fulfill it, and is effected in me alone for 
all my church ; and causing by way of faith in me by my spirit of 
regeneration, which I have gotten, and do communicate to all be- 
lievers, the law to be by them voluntarily observed in its spiritual 
sense, though not in an absolute perfection in this blood life body, 
that possesses no self-immortality. 

18.] Till heaven. — A proverbial kind of speech, as much as to 
say, never while the world lasts. Job xiv. 12 ; Ps. lxxii. 5. One jot 
or one tittle. — Or one iota, that is, a Greek letter importing as much 
as "i," in Latin. All he fulfilled. — Viz., till God's will revealed in 
his word be most perfectly fulfilled (Isa. xl. 8 ; Rom. iii. 31). 



136 MATTHEW V. 

19.] Whosoever therefore. — He reproveth the Pharisees' false 
doctrine, who made a difference in God's commandments, as if 
some were great, and others small, the transgression of which 
should not be of so great moment (Matt. xxii. 36) ; and showeth 
that they have all the same character of divine authority ; and 
that they all bind equally, though the degrees of matter be diverse. 
Shall be called. — Though he retain the good foundation of the 
faith, yet he shall lose much of God's approbation, and of the 
good esteem of true believers in the renewed state of my church 
by the gospel light (1 Cor. iii. 15). He opposeth this to the 
scribes and Pharisee dignities and reputation, who attributed unto 
themselves those arbitrary definitions of cases of conscience. 
Those that teach dust body resurrection, mocking God as a God 
of dead rotten bodies (Luke xx. 38 : For he is not a God of the 
dead, but of the living), and also mocking God by perverting 
plain parables, and wholly discarding plain statute laws of God, 
fully showing that all his foes he will utterly consume in a mo- 
ment. Num. xvi. 21 ; Mai. iv. 1 ; Obad. 16 : They shall be as 
if they had not been. Ps. xxxvii. 10 : For yet a little while, and 
the wicked shall not be. 20 : Into smoke shall they consume 
away. Ps. civ. 35 : Let the wicked be no more. Ps. cvi. 18 ; 
cxlv. 20 : All the wicked will God destroy (Isa. v. 24). 

20.] The righteousness. — -Which was all set upon vain cere- 
monies, arbitrary disciplines, false shows, and dead works, with- 
out God's spirit. Eater. — Viz., you shall not be true mem- 
bers of my spiritual kingdom which I have established in my 
church, nor attain to the kingdom of heavenly glory. 

21.] That it was said. — In the text of the law by Moses, Thou 
shalt not kill. And then afterwards in the gloss which hath been 
added thereto by the doctors, which came after, according to their 
own carnal meaning. And did not direct them to God and his 
justice ; and they set all the observation of the law in an outside 
external and hypocritical discipline, without any regard of God, 
inward piety, or righteousness of heart toward him, or dread of 
his judgments. The judgment. — The sentence and punishment 
of twenty-three judges, who had the cognizance of all criminal 
causes among the Jews. 

22.] But I. — Christ doth not bring up a new meaning of the 
law, but re-establisheth the only internal and spiritual meaning, 
which is original and eternal, and was forgotten and unknown 
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of sin are deadly in the rigor of Grod's law, though there be some 
diversity in degrees of punishment, he makes use of the divers 
degrees of capital judgments which were in use among the Jews, 
and by judgment he means that of the twenty-three judges which 
had the cognizance of ordinary crimes ; by the consistory, that of 
the (seventy-one) judges who had the cognizance of crimes of a 
higher degree, which concerned the public, as a false prophet, of a 
high priest, of an apostasy, or of the like cases ; and by hell fire, 
or G-ehenna, he means the great anathema, by which malefac- 
tor, besides his corporal death, was accursed in remembrance as 
long as the crimes wickedness smoke came in view of memory. 
Exod. xxii. 20 : He that sacrificeth unto any god save unto the 
Lord only (Lord God), he shall be utterly destroyed (annihilated). 
Without a cause. — Viz., that may be approved in God's judgment. 
Raca. — A Syriac word, which signifieth void of understanding, 
witless, a fool. Hell fire. — The Gehenna of fire : a Hebrew word, 
which signifieth the valley of Hinnom, which was a place near 
Jerusalem, where idolaters did burn their children to Moloch, 
their heathen idol humbug ; whereupon by reason of the cruelty 
of this idolatry the same name was attributed to hell, which means 
the grave, or to cover from sight, by consuming in a moment. 
Num. xvi. 27 ; 2 Kings xxiii. 10 ; Isa, xxiii. 10 ; v. 24 : There- 
fore as fire devoureth the stubble (Mai. iv. 1), and the flame con- 
sumeth the chaff (Matt. iii. 12), so the root of the wicked shall be 
rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust. Because they 
have cast away the laws of the Lord of hosts, and despised the 
word of the Holy One of Israel. Jer. vii. 31 : And they have 
built the high places of Tophet, which is the valley of the son of 
Hinnom, to burn their sons and daughters in the fire ; which 
I commanded them not, neither came into the heart of the 
Lord (such wickedness). Cruelty to animals laws were not then 
the governing national laws of Jerusalem nor the Jews. And at 
this, near the close of the nineteenth century, and the close of the 
twentieth, and last century that is to be shortened as the end of 
Gentile dispensation ; and then opens soon a new millennial dawn, 
when the righteous shall govern the earth, or near at hand may 
be the closing hour of earth's funeral pile, which is already kin- 
dled and mutters with pent-up lava, to burst forth and consume 
the earth, its waters, and atmosphere. Luke xvii. 26 : As it was 
in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of 
man. 28: Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot. 29 : The 

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same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone 
out of heaven, and destroyed (annihilated) them all. Deut. iv. 
24 : The Lord our God is a consuming fire. Heb. xii. 29 : 
Our God is a consuming fire. Nothing can stay or quench his 
consuming of the incorrigibly wicked, the devil, his angels, and 
tare seed children, and fallen angels, and all life in rebellion 
against God, in a moment, at the close of time. Num. xvi. 
21: The punishment lasts forever and is everlasting; like 
the hung murderer, dead, they never again return to life in any 
form after the last second soul death, at time's close. 1 Cor. xv. 
25 : For Christ Jesus must reign till he hath put all enemies 
under his feet. 26 : The last (there can be no more left alive) 
enemy that shall be destroyed is death. 28 : That God may be 
all in all (then alive in any form). The eternal hell fire tor- 
turers should have a Bergh of mercy against cruelty to animals in 
their ranks to pray for their enemies' annihilation, instead of a 
pagan myth of popery traditions, brought down from the dark 
ages of popish reign of tortures, and burnings of the real saints of 
God in the fagot bonfires of the devil's preachers, who worshiped 
a devil god like themselves, that took delight in torturing helpless 
mortals after they had burned their bodies, to resurrect by super- 
natural power the same ashes, and elements, and roast it in tor- 
ture, keeping the atom worthless dust, even rotten, quivering in 
hell fire torture eternally — for what? Not reform. Not to 
purify. Not for the satisfaction of seeing them writhe in pain. 
Then, maddened myth doctrined popish tradition preacher, what' 
for, this resurrection of wicked mortals after they are once dead, 
and who raises them ? Not Christ Jesus, for he clearly says 
(John vi. 40), Ye will not come to me, that ye might have life. 
What is their resurrection ? Isa. v. 24 : Their root shall be rot- 
tenness. Dan. xii. 26 (in the Hebrew) : A resurrection of rot- 
tenness (translated shame and contempt). Whence came the 
false myth doctrine of an endless hell fire torture? Not from God 
nor his Scripture truths ; but from popery, paganism, by way of 
traditions of men from Martin Luther, the reformer, previously a 
Roman Catholic preacher of that church for many years, head of 
the Lutheran and Dutch Reformed Churches. John Calvin also, 
of blessed memory, the founder of the doctrines taught in the 
various Presbyterian, Congregational, Baptist and other churches ; 
also previously Calvin was a faithful Roman Catholic preacher. 
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VIII., whom the pope crowned Defender of the Roman Catholic 
faith, becoming soon after offended at the pope's orders regarding 
his wife, he organized an opposition church to the pope, to show 
he was king of England. Thence John Wesley, an Episcopal 
preacher, organized the Methodist Episcopal Church of blessed 
memory. Experimental spirit birth no doubt many received in 
all those reformed churches, and many of them are to-day in 
heaven, in spirit bodies glorified like Christ's, resurrected by him 
at blood life death of their nature bodies. But sad misfortune 
followed from all those reformers, by way of tradition creeds of 
men, the mythy rotten body resurrections, and endless hell fire 
tortures of the wicked. Such pagan creeds from the darkest ages 
of murdering Romish priests and their satellites, tortures by fire 
of the children of Grod as heretics, should now, henceforth and 
forever, be banished from all but Satan's churches. It looks like 
his manufactured creed to mock the sovereign Grod Almighty of 
the universe, who only hath immortality, and dwells in spirit light 
unapproachable by devils or mortals unspirit born of Christ's spirit 
life eternal seed. Such only can become like Grod, immortal. 
Catholics would make endless hell fire homes for Protestants, and 
Protestants for Roman Catholics. 

23.] Therefore. — Seeing the offense is so great before Grod, we 
ought at once to desire pardon from him, which cannot be obtained 
but by due satisfaction to our neighbor. Ought. — Any cause of 
offense for any injury he hath received ; truthfully, not false accu- 
sations. 

24.] And go. — To show that men's wrath and hatred are so dis- 
pleasing to God that he disalloweth of any service done to him by any 
that are in such an evil disposition. See Job xlii. 8; 1 Peter iii. 7. 

25.] Agree. — As one that hath offended another doth very 
wisely to make a friendly compromise for the injury, giving some 
reasonable satisfaction before the judge gives his sentence, seeing 
that afterwards he should be forced to pay what he hath amerced 
without any remission. Thus can you mortals make an end of 
your controversies, whilst you are in the world in blood life pro- 
bation, before Grod doth give his irrevocable sentence against the 
obdurate offender of death that hath no life quickening Saviour. 

26.] Till thou hast. — Viz., forever ; for man hath not wherewith 
to give satisfaction to Grod's justice. Uttermost farthing . — It was 
anciently a piece of small value, as if we should say now a mite ; 
till thou hast paid the utmost mite. He being worthless could not 



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pay, and therefore must have ever remained in prison. The utmost 
mite of life is clearly meant. The sin soul dies. Ezek. xviii. 4 : The 
soul that sinneth, it shall die : 20, 24, 27. By repentance before 
blood life probation time dies, they save their soul alive. The 
person Christ speaks of is one unrepentant (Mai. iv. 1). 

28.] Already. — Before God he is guilty thereof, as if he had 
committed it ; for his soul is defiled, though his body be not. 

29.] Right eye. — There is nothing so precious to which God's 
righteousness ought not to be preferred. Offend thee. — Do entice 
thee by its looks to offend thee. Pluck it out. — This must be 
understood by way of comparison ; thus, thou hadst better pluck it 
out than be thereby induced to offend God, and be in danger of 
losing thy soul life ; therefore seeing there is nothing more dear 
to thee than thine eyes, mortify thine old nature lusts and other 
sinful desires, place thy affections on heaven, obey God's com- 
mands and thereby save thy soul alive through Christ. 

30.] Thy right hand. — By some kind of touch, which may 
provoke thee to call thy neighbor by opprobrious appellations, as 
false nicknames which the devil will suggest to the weak minds 
drugged with pride or self desire of exaltation, by attempts to 
lower the standing of a good-natured neighbor ; by calling them 
by false names, claiming the slimy low filthy familiarity of degra- 
dation as excuse ; because the vicious nickname each other, they 
also would be familiar with sin. The same devil excuse made by 
printers and church members, who serve self and Satan ; that 
fraternal familiarity is all they feel when they call the bosom friend 
and baptizer of our Messiah Christ Jesus, the beloved John, 
Jack, and Robert's truthful name by a liar's false approbrious 
appellation, Bob, which Webster's Unabridged Dictionary says is 
a mason's guide in building a wall of a house, or a jerking mo- 
tion, etc. Not a name of a person : calling Henry, Harry ; Rich- 
ard, Dick ; and all such mean nicknames given forth from devils 
within nicknamers, is of the same liar stock that called Jesus 
Beelzebub (Matt. x. 25; xii. 24; Mark iii. 22; Luke xi. 15). 
All false names of persons or places shows the would-be giver of 
them to be truthfully a liar and a thief; they would steal the 
truthful name of person or place, and donate a liar name, which 
should ever be refused and returned at once to the giver (Prov. 
xxvi. 7, 8, 9). Lustful concupiscence or theft, all vehement 
affections and passionate motions : which things ought to be sup- 
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31.] Let him give her. — -This law doth not permit nor approve 
of divorces made without just cause, but they being already of a 
long time in use among the people, God tolerating or taking no 
notice of them, had in some manner set down a rule for them, 
providing for the credit of the women which were put away by 
this writing, which did clear them from the crime of adultery, 
and set them at liberty, that the husband breaking the bonds of 
marriage on his side, the poor woman on her side might be free to 
marry again (Jer. iii. 1). God who only hath immortality by 
way of Christ Jesus impregnates the soul mind, or spirit egg, 
formed by way of the union of the heart, the life chit of blood 
life, and which pulsates blood life by way of the union with the 
lung inflations of God's imparted breath life ; both of which pul- 
sations of blood life and inflation of breath life inseparably united 
to prolong body life, without the aid of the mortal's will power, 
which in all other matters appertaining to body life on earth has 
full control of all the actions of the body life, the mind germ 
spirit intellect egg conceives good or evil from inbred habits and 
surroundings, and their character is formed thereby ; but like the 
sun's rays of light on earth, the setting sun is an emblem of mor- 
tals in a state of Adamic seed nature life ; the sun's light rays 
withdrawn leaves night's darkness, emblem of death, which in- 
evitably ensues when blood life's inflations and pulsations set for- 
ever in death of nature life. To prolong life intellect soul mind, 
the will power of choice must receive a spirit impregnation from 
a spirit being who has the immortal holy life eternal love pulsating 
in his spirit body immortal ; and none but God being self-exist- 
ent, from eternity past, and for eternity to come, that life power 
and source of all life which he hath power and doth impart by 
way of his spirit word son Christ the spirit word creation power, 
veiled by way of a love impartation to the spirit word promise 
made in Eden (Gen. iii. 15) that the woman seed should bruise 
the serpent's head, that word then uttered impregnated in the full- 
ness of time the nature seed egg of nature Adamic in the Virgin 
Mary, and that body, holy thereby, became allied to Adam's race, 
and was called Jesus whose blood life was offered as an atonement 
to justice omnipotent of God his Father, to redeem from death, 
by way of the blood, the soul minds of believers of gospel grace 
truth, sentenced to death (Gren. iii. 19-24), and under the sheriff 
Satan, all who would repent by way of the use of their will powers 
wholly under the control of choice of each mature seed of Adamic 



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lust sin begotten mortals ; such alone who receive Christ's spirit 
life immortal, thereby become immortal, and their spirit born new 
creature life pulsates love to Grod supreme, and to their neighbors 
award the same as they ask for themselves ; no others are or can 
be immortal. Satan's tare children as likewise himself are con- 
sumed with earth, which is the kindled funeral pile of all unholy 
when time's probation ends, and creation of probation beings ends. 

32.] Causeth her. — Viz., is guilty of unjust dissolution of the 
marriage, and the only cause of copulation, which without this his 
illicit separation could not be lawful ; and therefore is imputed as 
adultery to him, but not to the woman nor to her second husband. 
That is divorced. — 1% is here to be understood, except it be in case 
of adultery. 

33.] Forswear. — The Pharisees had falsified the meaning of 
this law two ways : First, in restraining it to false oaths, sworn 
to harm other men, without comprehending vain and frivolous 
oaths. Secondly, by reputing such for indifferent, and as no oaths, 
which were not conceived in Grod's name, but were sworn by 
creatures (Matt, xxiii. 16, 18). Unto the Lord. — Either directly 
in such things as thou hast promised thy neighbor in his name. 
Not sworn officials to the Pope of Rome or English Church. 

34.] Not at all. — Seeing that an oath is supposed to be a means 
and a help to obtain truth and to proof appointed by Grod and 
oftentimes very necessary, we are rather inclined to restrain this 
commandment of Christ's to voluntary oaths, not required by them 
who have authority. But I fully believe justice would be equally 
as secure by making the false answer before a judge, yes or no, as 
an oath. Vain, frivolous, vicious, and ill-conceived, and blas- 
phemous ; seeing those things which are written here have a 
relation to such oaths. By heaven. — By way of assertion, as in 
saying, so sure as there is a heaven, or as sure as there is a heaven, 
or by way of execration, — -let heaven blast me, the earth abyss me, 
if it be otherwise than I say. For it is. — This reason doth prove 
the two evils of such oaths: namely, the impiety of the form, 
making use of the creature in them, instead of God alone, and 
the profaneness in the aim and intent, swearing scoffingly, with- 
out truth or reverence. 

36.] By thy head. — Viz., affirming anything as engaging thy 
head upon it, which thou dost subject to all misfortunes if thou 
liest, or by saying, as true as my head is dear to me. Because 
thou. — Thine head is not for thee to engage it; or subject it by 



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such oaths or such chances as thou pleasest ; as oaths of secrecy 
imparted by unauthorized persons. 

37.] Bat let. — Namely, let your sayings be averred by a con- 
stant, plain, and uniform truth, and not by unlawful oaths. Is 
more. — Beyond the simplicity of the words, whether a thing to be 
affirmed or denied. Of evil, — Namely, from the devil, as unneces- 
sary oaths which men do add, from their corrupted nature, and 
wicked custom or habit. 

38.] Ye have heard. — Christ condemns the Pharisees' false ex- 
positions, who did extend the laws of equalizing and justly pro- 
portioning public punishments judicially inflicted to the suffering 
of private revenges. 

39.] Resist not evil. — Do not requite evil for evil, overcome 
evil by doing good, do not work your own revenges. Tarn to 
him. — Rather than to transgress the laws of charity and Christian 
patience, suffer a double injury. 

40.] Sue thee at the law. — Namely, by violence, or by an un- 
lawful or fraudulent plea. The meaning is, Do thou use no 
violence nor interchangeable fraud ; lawyers, as a whole, have 
ever been more damage to the body politic than benefit. They 
are generally inclined to evil from their youth, and few of them 
have affection for their neighbors, parents, or kindred. All nations 
on earth, governed by laws of men's manufacture, never have 
perfect laws. Though year after year they assemble, there are ever 
among the legislators, lawyers who shut out all courts of concilia- 
tion from the statute-books, or make them useless by interpolations. 
The lawyers go to school often by periling the homestead of their 
parents to raise money, and from school to a law office to study 
the past labors of tricky lawyers ; and judges, made of lawyers, 
decide not in equity and justice alone, like God's law, but take 
the precedent decision for a guide. Whether thus decided in 
equity, or by bribery, fraud, or ignorance, the title judge covers 
all. The man robbed, or the thief or murderer, if they pay the 
lawyer a retaining fee, have thereby hired a man to defend the 
thief or murderer with equal or more eloquence than they use to 
defend the innocent from the murderer or plunderer. Lawyers 
plan, when school students, that they will seek office in state or 
government when they become lawyers, and curse the government 
with wars and taxations ; they make common plunder of public 
moneys under various fraudulent false pretenses. In 1873 the 
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14 4 MATTHEW V. 

pay over again for two years. Forty-eight lawyers in the Senate, 
one hundred and fifteen lawyers in the lower house, which they 
call necessary to obtain men of talent to obtain a large salary, 
mileage, books, and stationery, and maps ; and even in the United 
States of America Congress, garden seeds, etc., all tree to them, but 
at the expense of all tax-payers ; thereby covert extortion rob- 
bery is covered by the lawyer tricks of their trade ; and for the 
past score of years Satan, their patron saint, as fable tradition 
history hands it down from the dark ages, is drawing the nations 
back to the corruptions and anarchy of the dark ages' dark deeds. 
Railroads are chartered, with millions of acres of government 
lands thrown in, and senators and congressmen lawyers often 
become very wealthy. The words of many lawyers are like Satan's, 
through the serpent to Eve in Eden, very flattering but utterly 
void of truth ; they will promise to make a motion, and free a 
client from a would-be swindler for a trifle of a score of dollars, 
and mulct the client in many times the amount demanded by the 
robber, and then sue the client for ten times the amount the law- 
yer agreed to free the client from the swindler, and call it counsel 
fee ; when in truth the lawyer's counsel was worse than worthless. 
Lawyers, as a whole, know little of the details or practical details 
of business life ; and as legislators, they so muddle the laws that 
they themselves cannot understand them ; the last United States 
of America Congress had in the Senate some three-quarters of the 
representation there present, and in the House of Congress sixty- 
five lawyers out of each hundred representatives. That readily 
accounts for their tricks on the people of the Southern States. 
Luke xi. 46 : And Jesus said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers ! for 
ye load men with burdens grievous to be borne, and yon your- 
selves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers. The only 
amendment the old Constitution of the United States of America 
Government required, was, that each class of people in the Union 
should be represented in State and Congressional legislation ac- 
cording to their numbers, — farmers, mechanics, merchants, etc. 

41.] Shall compel thee. — According to the custom of those 

days : by which it was lawful for one that went about public 

affairs which required haste to force any that he met upon the 

way to go along with him, to aid and assist him (Matt, xxvii. 32). 

42.] Borrow of thee. — Luke vi. 34. 

43.] And hate. — This was the false gloss of the Jewish doctors, 
who did restrain the word neighbor to kinsfolks, friends, and 



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acquaintances only (Luke x. 29). Contrary to the true meaning 
of the law, set down in Exod. xxiii. 5 ; Lev. xix. 17, 18 ; Job 
xxxi. 29. 

44.] I say unto you. — Viz., I declare unto you according to the 
true intent and meaning of the Scriptures given by Moses. 

45.] Ye may be. — That ye may indeed show yourselves to be 
such, imitating God's natural goodness. 

46.] If yc love. — That charity which imitates (rod's, and is by 
him rewarded, is not that natural inclination to love those that 
love us, because that God's charity extends itself even to his 
enemies ; but the spiritual love, to love as he first loved us, and all 
those he commands us to bestow charity upon, without any respect 
to ourselves. The publicans. — Men which were infamous and 
execrable among the Jews, not only for their avarice and extor- 
tions, but especially because they were instruments of the Romans' 
tyranny upon the Jews. 

47.] Your brethren. — Others your friends. More than others. — 
Viz., more than the publicans, and other sects of the Jews. 

48.] Be ye. — Imitate God in his mercy; his rain and sunlight 
fall alike on the evil and the good on earth, and in regard to 
us and our salvation, is the fullness of his virtues ; and thereon 
endeavor to attain to perfection (Eph. iv. 13 ; Phil. iii. 12). 



Chapter VI. 



1.] Your alms. — Other texts say righteousness: viz., every 
good work, especially in charity and liberality towards the poor 
(Deut. xxiv. 13; Ps. cxii. 9 ; Dan. iv. 27). To be seen. — That is, 
through ambition vain glory to be honored of them. Otherwise. — 
For the work which of itself is good is corrupted by the evil of 
affecting glory from men, instead of pure intent to perform the 
will of God to his honor ; all mortals are by nature selfish, and 
each loves self best. 

2.] Trumpet. — Viz., covet not that men should know it, to the 
end that thou mayst be honored for it. Their reward. — Having 
aspired only to this vain glory, from poor dependent mortals of 
dust, let them content themselves therewith, and not hope for 
additional reward from God. 

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3„] Let not. — A proverbial kind of speech, to signify a more 
concealed secret. Or, be content that God looks upon thee, and 
esteems thee, without puffing thyself up with foolish vain glory ; 
great I and little u : the vilest cheats and swindlers that over- 
reach the poor man with one talent, and get him to agree to a 
trade which he cannot perform, and the defrauder obtains all his 
hard earned means on hand, and soon turns the poor fellow- 
mortal's family into the street penniless ; and then gives the avails 
of such robberies of the poor to educate the sons of the rich, by 
large donations to build colleges, and receive applause of men ; 
such glory of men, void of holiness, may be yearly seen in State 
colleges. How much more noble would it be to return it to the 
poor! 

4.] Openly. — In the clear light of the spiritual resurrection 
of the just. 

5.] And when thou pray est. — What is availing prayer ? it is 
the truthful deep desire of the heart, mind, and will of the mortals 
that feel truly their utter childlike helplessness, and in their 
secret contemplation of their state of destitution and brevity of 
nature existence, they cry in secret to God who only hath im- 
mortal life to bestow, that he would be pleased to create within 
them a clean heart, and renew a right spirit within them. 

6.] Thy closet. — Withdraw thyself privately, and be content 
that thou hast God for thy witness ; he alone through Christ can 
impregnate your soul mind with immortal spirit life seed, and 
light your mind with intellectual light eternal. 

7.] Use not vain. — All repetitions are utterly useless, and long 
prayers as heathen orgies. 

8.] Before ye ask. — Open thy deep heartfelt desires for im- 
mortal spirit life to God in secret communion, without vocal 
utterance, at the altar of prayer, that mortals may see thy humble 
sincerity. 

9.] Pray ye. — Retain ye always the substance of this brief for- 
mulary, and restrain all your prayers into conformity with these 
heads, and use the childlike simplicity and dependence, and sober 
brevity of it ; pray for only those things then needed. 

10.] Thy kingdom. — Establish thy Son's spiritual kingdom in 
the world by thy word and spirit, and destroy utterly annihilate 
the devil and all his rebel hosts, sin and death. In earth. — As will- 
ingly and faithfully by mortals spirit born of Christ's good spirit 
love life eternal seed, as it is in heaven by angels. 



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11.] Give us. — Please bestow on us, thy spirit born children, and 
all who truthfully seek with all their hearts, and will, and mind, to 
become thy spirit children, spiritual food from heaven, for it is not 
a product of earth. Like the heavenly manna (Exod. xvi. 16, 19.) 

12.] Our debts. — Our offenses against thee (Luke xi. 4), for 
which we owe a death by thy judgment. As we. — Not thereby to 
give an example for God to return unto us, because he set us the 
example (1 John iv. 10 ; Eph. iv. 32 ; Gra-1. iii. 13), nor to ground ■ 
our prayers upon the merits of our works (Dan. ix. 18), but to 
conform to God's conditions of pardon if we purpose to be pardoned 
ourselves, and to show our good conscience to God ; we by faith in 
God's conditional promises are firmer in faith every time we clearly 
receive answers to our prayers affirmatively, which we are sure to 
do if we seek God through Christ aided by the Holy Ghost's infi- 
nite mercy, with all our heart, not part of it ; viz. : by partial belief 
experiment, like a druggist clerk, without knowledge, experiment- 
ing with unknown drugs, and mixing arsenic with aloes and ginger, 
etc., to make a pill ; thus the sinner who is ignorant of God's spirit 
life ways must be careful not to put his or her lust poison or self- 
exaltation, esteem, or personal merit of any kind in our prayers to 
God, but ever humble, helpless, and wholly dependent on God 
the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, as the infant child is dependent 
on its parents and friends for nature body life food. Joel ii. 13 : 
Rend your heart, not your garments. Jer. xxix. 13 ; Acts viii. 37 : 
If thou believest with all thy heart. 

13.] Lead lis not. — Please keep us from the broad way to death 
temptations, by leading us in life's narrow way of holiness and truth- 
ful love ; please keep us from all provocations and desire to sin, and 
suppress in us all manner of inclination to evil ; give us the 
light, safeguard, and maintenance of thy spirit rays of light life 
immortal, and please never withhold thy protecting care from us, 
for we are helpless as infants without thy aid, although we are 
mature men and women in earthy matter. Please give us not up 
into the devil's hand, leave us not to his wicked inducements ; 
please leave us not to the lust impulses of inbred lust sin, and 
covetous, envious, and malicious desires ; keep us, please, ever filled 
with heavenly light, wisdom, knowledge, and holy desires, filled 
with the spirit love of Christ's infinite love, and the Holy Ghost 
infinite mercy, each filled with God the Father's infinite goodness, 
love, and mercy, and light life immortal. Amen. — So be it, or so 
it is : a Hebrew word used at the end of prayers, to signify the 



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fervent desire to obtain that which a person prayeth for, or to 
testify their truth and sincerity. 

14.] For if. — This hath an especial relation to verse 12. This 
cannot be understood as of the general remission of sins, in respect 
to the everlasting judgment, which hath no other cause or ground 
before Grod but Christ's satisfaction by way of an importation of 
his love life power developed in the sacrificial atonement body 
spirit begotten by the spirit life begetting power word spoken to 
Satan in his servant the serpent, that woman's seed in the fullness 
of the then appointed time should by way of that woman's seed 
egg of nature impregnated by the word then spoken, bruise the 
serpent's head power of death, to all Adam's sin lust begotten race ; 
the human body divinely begotten of Jesus as aforesaid made to 
Grod's infinite justice a pure sinless sacrifice of blood life, that 
Satan was not as sheriff executioner permitted to slay ; and there- 
fore the body blood life was permitted to be made a full atone- 
ment for all souls spirit born of Christ's spirit word impregnating 
seed, which impregnated with immortal life light the soul spirit 
egg mind intellect, which under the brooding of the holy dove in- 
finite mercy developed, and still develops, and will to the close of 
time, new creatures in Christ Jesus (Matt. xiii. 37, 38 ; John iii. 5, 
6 ; iv. 24 ; 2 Cor. v. 17. Like begets its like, is God's law supreme, 
John vi. 63. Forgiveness of trespasses against us is the result fol- 
lowing spirit birth of Christ's spirit life immortal seed birth, not 
the cause (Gral. vi. 7, 8, 15 ; John xv. 5). Without me ye can do 
nothing to merit salvation : James v. 20 ; 1 Pet. iv. 8. 

15.] But if ye. — Your souls shall surely die, like your nature 
blood life body, unless you have Christ's forgiving spirit, which is 
the result of love, that all immortal beings pulsate ; hatred pulsa- 
tion in the soul's intellect mind soon produces death of soul. 
Grod's displeasure, called anger, endureth but a moment (Ps. xxx. 
5). Num. xvi. 21 : That I may consume them (the wicked) in 
a moment. A very different doctrine from that promulgated by 
those devils in human form that burnt at the stake the children of 
Grod, calling them heretics, and taught that Grod's anger endured 
forever with the wicked, and he would raise to life again those 
bodies they had burned, and torture them forever in an endless 
hell fire and brimstone torture, thereby showing that the Grod 
they worshiped was like the pagan wooden gods, infinitely magni- 
fied in stupidity and like themselves devils, instead of a Grod 
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is but for a moment. Eccles. vii. 9 : Anger resteth in the bosom 
of fools. Such worship a god like themselves. 

16.] Of a sad. — By a hypocritical and ambitious affectation, or 
assimilated change to be in them. Disfigure. — They use art in 
making themselves look pale and wan ; and strain at the gnat 
flowers on the poor girl's bonnet, or figures worked on their lace 
veils by their own hands, and the flowers are made by poor girls 
like themselves to obtain bread ; and though the outlay cost of the 
poor girl's dress is not a tenth of the cost of the preacher's or his 
wife's, the preacher swallows the selfish camel's hair shawl and 
denounces with great threatening anathemas the gnat. Sin is the 
intentional violation of God's law of affection as regards dress, as 
in all other sins. If the poor girl's affections were centered in the 
posy, that would be a childish folly sin ; but the mature swal- 
lowers of camel's hair shawls are those that denounce all who do 
not imitate them, instead of the pure intent to perform the will 
of God to his honor. 

17.] Anoint. — Make no outward show of fasting by hypocrisy 
or vain glory, but rather seem to do the contrary. It is a custom 
among the Eastern people to anoint their heads and wash their 
faces, whereby to appear fresh and cheerful ; so Christ teacheth us 
thereby wholly to avoid vain shows and ostentation. This ought 
to be understood of private fasts : for in public fasts Grod ap- 
pointed there should be outward shows of repentance and humilia- 
tion, to further the repentance of the heart, and for the common 
edification. 

18.] Not unto men. — Like secret prayer, there is no self-eulogy, 
or ocular applause from others. But wholly unto Grod the spirit 
Father of all spirit born immortal life. 

19.] Lay not tip. — Place not your affections upon any thing 
earthly so as to make a god of it, be not set with a deep desire of 
many worldly goods ; for if you abound therein, there is great 
danger that you will set your hearts, your trust and content upon 
them, which is idolatry (Eph. v. 5 ; Col. iii. 5 ; Eccles. v. 10). 
He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver. Astor, 
Stewart, Vanderbilt. and all like them piling up the earthly baubles 
by millions are more anxious to-day to increase their wealth than 
they were when they were not worth a tithe of their present 
wealth, and the last breath pulsation moment of blood life will in 
a moment leave them but dust, void of life, and penniless as the 
poorest beggar at his death. How transient is life ! each pulsation 

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is big with eternal realities ; the last one is unknown to any that 
live, and often comes when least anticipated. Abraham, Job, 
and Joseph were wealthy men, but their affections centered in 
God, the real owner and creator of all wealth. Mortals are bundles 
of habits, good or evil. A miserly hoarding of wealth becomes a 
habit, and its results are like the dog in the manger : they eat not 
the hay themselves, neither will they let the ox eat. Such have 
great cares, and little happiness. 

20.] But lay up. — Contrariwise, purchase with great fervency 
spiritual and heavenly goods, and endeavor to abound in such 
wealth in this world (doing good to the poor and needy). And 
to obtain by way of spirit birth new spirit immortal creature 
life, through Christ Jesus, that you may thereby become the 
heir to an eternal inheritance and boundless exhaustless riches 
through grace that endureth with eternal life. All earth's wealth 
is uninsured against the great conflagration day that hastens 
with rapid strides; and all earth life is sentenced to, and soon, 
like the fast-falling sands of the hour-glass, all life earthly is 
swallowed up by earth that bore its body food, and its formation 
that all matures from little ea^ seeds and cuttings in inanimate 
nature life ; and all animate nature life first germinates in the 
female egg and male milt, both of which without contact soon 
decay and rot as excrements ; when brought in contact impreg- 
nation life, they, like the seed-life of inanimate nature, ex- 
pand ad infinitum, until the angel of God shall announce on earth 
the close of time. Thus earth is a graveyard of all earth life 
bodies and parts ; hell's intense horrors are fully developed on 
every battlefield, where devils in men, in power as rulers, force 
their fellow-men and neighbors to mangle in the most horrid man- 
ner, and leave with most horrid pangs of hell earth torture and 
death. Devils rejoice and demons laugh. But guardian angels, 
and truly spirit born children of God on earth, mourn at their 
secret altars of prayer. 

21.] Treasure is. — The spirit born child of God daily through 
secret prayer places his treasures in heaven's savings-bank, the 
Lord Jesus Christ, the only ark of safety that will bear safely 
over the sea of fire to his Father in heaven all who without reserve 
place themselves, earth life, and treasures, all on board. 

22.] The light. — Even as the eyes are the light and guide of 
the whole body, so that if it be pure and clear the whole body is 
well directed ; and contrariwise, if that be dim and injured, the 



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body is (as it were) in darkness : so if man's understanding, 
which is the light of the soul in all its motions, be enlightened 
by God's spirit, all his actions are well guided ; but if it be with- 
out divine light and be darkened with carnal cares and desires, 
the whole intellect life is blinded thereby ; the whole man lieth 
and goeth wandering in the darkness of ignorance and sin, and 
at the last soul death (Ezek. xviii. 4, 20, 24, 27 ; Rev. xx. 
14 ; xxi. 8). The first death of body blood life, the second 
death death of the soul not spirit born of Christ's good seed, 
single or clear. 

23.] That darkness. — Namely, the uncleanest, beastliest, and 
most lustful, covetous, vicious, disordinate passions and affections 
of thy soul. Thy dark benighted soul is at ease in sinful indul- 
gences, as a drugged drunkard who deliberately drinks hatred 
poison and drowns reason. 

24.] Can serve. — A proverbial kind of speech, which must be 
understood according to the subject whereunto it is applied : that 
kind of service which requireth the whole endeavor, strength, and 
heart of man to be applied to it, and in which masters or overseers 
are contrary, as light and darkness, goodness, love, and mercy, and 
hatred, malice, revenge, falsehood, and evil natures that prefer to 
toil hard to do injury to their pious neighbor, to scratch their evil 
nature by calling their fellow-being by an opprobrious nickname, 
rather than loving them as themselves, mortals, rebels against 
Grod, who daily spares their mean lives and sends his early and 
later rains to feed them (James iv. 4 ; John ii. 15). Mammon. — 
A. Syriac word which signifieth riches, money, lucre, as Luke xvi. 
6. He mentioneth here one species for all ; and that which he 
saith of covetousness must be understood of all wicked concu- 
piscences of the flesh. You cannot serve Grod and the devil or 
depraved self-lusts. * 

25.] Take no thought. — He forbids not all labor and care, but 
only such as distempers the spirit with fear and distrust. By 
placing all our thoughts on fear that when the sun sets (so mortals 
say, though the sun never sets, but earth revolves and hides the 
sun from our vision), to think the light of the sun may be gone 
forever, or fear the frost would destroy vegetation life food, or 
more fully distrusting Grod's promises of seed time and harvest to 
the end of the world. The true way to act was ever to plow and 
sow in season in full faith. Is not the life. — Grod out of his power 
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greater, will not deny him the lesser, which is the preservation 
thereof during its probation time. 

27.] One cubit. — All the thoughts and endeavors of mortals 
are vain, except God gives a blessing to it. 

28.] Why take ye thought. — Does not your blood life heart pul- 
sate, do not thy lungs innate without thy thoughts' aid ? in the same 
way by God's appointment, fixed laws, vegetation food grows, thy 
thoughts and distrusts avails not. Your duty is plow and sow in 
season, leaving events all with God where they are already, and 
thy thoughts of distrust avail nothing ; thus also in spirit life de- 
velopments, sow to the spirit of Christ by secret holy confiding 
prayers. 

29.] All his glory. — The providential goodness of God ex- 
tended even to beautifying nature's products, extended to the 
flowers of the field, is above all that man can do by the utmost 
extent of his riches and power, for all his splendor of gaudy show 
of gold and tinsel is void of life and but dead matter, like their 
body with God's life expanded breath from Adam withdrawn by 
the creator, the same as earth, with sun-rays withdrawn. 

30.] Clothe. — The grass is clothed with life, and mortals may 
be clothed by way of spirit birth of faith which worketh by love 
through Christ with immortal spirit life. 

31.] Take no thought. — About the body life, which is like the 
grass life fed by nature's earthy elements, soon ended ; but take 
thought about your superior privilege of access to heavenly spirit 
life by way of Christ Jesus, who will impart life light immortal 
from God his Father to all who seek God with all their heart and 
obey his holy commands. 

32.] Seek. — With anxious care for body blood life's food and 
raiment, because they have not the knowledge of God, nor of 
spirit birth life immortal, nor faith in his power and fatherly love, 
nor lively apprehension of his providence. 

33.] Seek ye. — Desire and seek before all other things to par- 
ticipate by way of spirit birth of Christ's immortal spirit life seed, 
that you may have part in the Son of God's kingdom in obedience, 
holiness, and spiritual uprightness. Righteousness. — This word 
is here taken for the new birth and newness of life. Shall be 
added. — The rest are but accessory, and must come in the second 
place. 

34.] The morroio — You ought not to expect what God will 
dispose ; which if it be to your relief, contrary to your expecta- 



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tion, it were folly in you to trouble yourselves in caring for that 
evil which will come to pass ; and if it be to your affliction and 
punishment, what good will it do you to anticipate the sorrow of 
it before the time ? Sufficient. — -Each day of life on earth hath its 
cares, labors, and troubles ; to take thought of the morrow's tooth- 
ache would not lessen the pain, nor would thoughts to-day tell 
thereof. God's laws are fixed and unalterable, save by the same 
power that made them. 



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1.] Judge not. — He means particular evil judgments which 
men judge of their neighbors, without any uprightness, charity, 
love, truth, or authority, or real knowledge of their inward inten- 
tions, judging wholly by outside appearances, through curiosity, 
pride, rashness, suspicion, malice, hypocrisy, etc. Be not. — By 
God, the revenger of this usurpation of power which belongeth to 
him only. And oftentimes also by men with the same vice, seeing 
God often suffereth one man's sin to be punished by the sin of 
another. 

2.] Ye shall. — In like manner that you sentence your neighbor 
to nicknames, your name will be stricken from the book of life. 
Ye mete. — You that pass the sentence of an endless torture of fire 
and brimstone upon nine-tenths of your fellow-beings, including 
your neighbors and children, father, mother, brothers and sisters, 
uncles, aunts, nephews, nieces, cousins, and friends, thereby award- 
ing or meting a measure of punishment you would abhor that 
they should mete out or adjudge to you; but the worst possible 
punishment awaits you more surely than them, for it shall be 
measured to you again. If you judge, or mete out, to yourself 
first, the punishment you award to them, you will be nearer the 
correct truthful punishment awarded the wicked ; you would not, 
after you had killed the ravenous tiger that had killed and mangled 
the bodies of your dearest kindred, resurrect the tiger to life, 
merely for the purpose of torturing it in a lake of fire and brim- 
stone eternally, if you had the power ; how infinitely less would 
God, whose essence is goodness, love, and mercy infinite, resurrect 
the dead rotten bodies of sinners incorrigible to life, merely to 
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quickly destroys, annihilates, by fixed statute laws all his enemies, 
is the worst of blasphemy of the only Being who is good without 
alloy, and love without dissimulation, and whose mercy endureth 
eternally, and whose anger is but for a moment (Ps. xxx. 5 ; ciii. 
9 ; Ezek. xviii. 4, 20, 24, 27). How much better, mortal 
preacher judge, is God's measure meted to us all if we come short ! 
You for yourself, if you are at last to be the sufferer, would prefer 
God's truth way, death of soul as well as body, than what pagan 
Roman popery through the dark ages meted out to God's children, 
viz. torture and fire death ; and they worshiped a demon god like 
themselves, that would resurrect to life merely to prolong their 
torture eternally, by way of supernatural life given them, so that 
torture would not kill them. You, tradition of popish priest 
torturer of the dark ages, mete out like them what you yourselves, 
were it possible, would have measured to them again ; but it is 
life or death. 

3.] Beholdest thou. — A proverb used among the Jews. The 
mote. — That is, why divest thou so curiously into the faults of 
another, yea, the very least, and perceivest not where thou coverest 
thine own, which are foul and filthy ? Mortals unholy feel not the 
pain they hypocritically inflict on their fellow-beings ; they do 
and say the evil, and falsely accuse the innocent, or those with a 
mere mote atom of wrong. God will be judge, not man. 

4.] The mote. — The eternal hell fire torturer rebukes the mercy 
mote in me ; for, says he, you let the wicked off too easy by soul 
death, and Satan's and his tare seed children and associates destruc- 
tion, after seeking rest and finding none to the close of time ; and 
then with earth to be consumed is not enough. Torture them 
eternally, says the preacher, whose tune would be quickly altered 
(who himself was, if not now, a greater sinner than many he con- 
demns) to enough, if he finds himself on the left hand condemned 
to death ; then the beam is seen of devil hatred of all who will not 
his false doctrines of pagan devils popery believe. Again says the 
hell fire torturer eternally preacher, how can we awake the dreamy 
devil drugged sinners, who are drunk with the poison spirit of 
the world's dances, lust, lies, nicknames, blasphemy, thefts, and 
murders, and horrible sins of various kinds, unless we threaten 
them with eternal hell fire and brimstone torture after body death 
(which none of them believe, or fear as they do immediate punish- 
ments of States prisons, and the gibbet's halter of death). No 
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ever frightened into it. 2 Cor. v. 11 : Knowing, therefore, the 
terror of the Lord, we persuade men, not frighten them with false- 
hoods, to lead them to embrace God's truths. I do not believe 
there was ever one soul saved by hell fire eternal preaching, but 
vast numbers lost. 

5.] First cast. — All human beings on earth embrace natural 
teachings of their parents, guardians, and teachers, or preachers, 
as their belief, although they may not act in accordance with it : 
this becomes, as it were, a beam, that fills with dark false ideas 
their soul minds, until spirit born of Christ's good seed ; traditions 
of men theology, however absurd and revolting to enlightened rea- 
son, and void of truth, yet they like the blind man cling to their 
second nature dark ideas. They regard not God's statute plain in- 
fallible laws of life and death, of soul and body ; but misconstrue 
plain parables of Jews and Gentiles into endless hell life in fire 
tortures of all who are heretit-s to their creeds. 

6.] Give not. — Take heed of rash judgments ; but likewise use 
discretion, and holy spiritual judgment, in not presenting the holy 
and precious celestial truth, to men that are profane and openly 
rebellious, lest you provoke them to blasphemy and contempt, or 
aggravate their rage against you (1 Pet. iv. 15). Such would tell 
Jesus, or his disciples, mockingly, that wisdom would die with 
them. 

7.] Ash. — Lift up thy soul mind by faith that worketh by love 
to God, through the Mediator, the Lord Jesus Christ, your heart- 
felt truth desires for immortal life seed impregnations of eternal 
truths, wisdom, knowledge, and understanding from the Lord, 
bearing his spirit which pulsates love life immortal ; confess before 
men, at the church altar kneel, and seek God with all your heart, 
not holding back part of the price, but like the volunteer soldier 
go thyself to battle, put thy blood life at peril ; not to fall like a 
dead animal, as in earthly wars of Satan's hell tortures on earth, 
that hath no enduring reward ; but in like manner of peril, be 
willing to give your blood life, and all you have, in exchange to 
the Lord for eternal life, and an eternal spirit life crown of glory, 
and life unending boundless estate. Knock. — At mercy's door, 
like a poor penniless starving beggar child in sin's rags, in secret 
prayers. 

8.] Findeth. — If thou seek him he will be found of thee (1 
Chron. xxviii. 9). Ps. cxix. 2 : Seek him with thy whole heart. 

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such things as we stand in need of, truly good. If he refuse to 
grant us that which we desire, judge that it is 1 not good for him 
that asketh it. 

10.] A serpent. — God will not send Satan to give spirit life 
food to the truly penitent seeker, but his angel. 

11.] Being evil. — Whose natural affections are much corrupted 
through the ignorance and malice which sin hath brought in, 
whereby oftentimes you misjudge what is good for your children. 
And sometimes also through anger, parsimony, or some other vice, 
you deny them that good which they ask of you ; but you never 
come to that unnatural extremity as to give them hurtful or 
deadly things instead of good. 

How mucJi more. — We ought then to rely upon God, as con- 
cerning what is good for us, and not follow our own selfish wrong 
desires ; of all earth's monstrosities of wickedness, the church 
office-holders are worse than the thief office-holders of state when 
they are left to self and Satanic influences, as the Bishop of Lon- 
don of the Popish English Church that receives salary equal to 
the amount given the President of the United States of America, 
and renders no service of any value for it ; thus leaving the poor 
church members heavily taxed on their little means of support, 
while lazy imbeciles, under the false pretence of working for God, 
like Judas, are betrayers of truth and mockers of Jesus. Such 
are the results of Church and State ; it is but wolves in sheep's 
clothing, mammon and the devil in human form. God never com- 
mingles with unrighteousness : light and darkness cannot occupy 
one room together. God knows what is good and expedient for 
us ; if we will obey his Scripture commands and injunctions, we 
will not make merchandise of the gospel. 

12.] Therefore. — To the end that you may obtain what you 
ask, do unto others as you desire should in like manner and cir- 
cumstances be done unto you by God and men. Use no deceit in 
trade, treat your fellow mortals with the same politeness and kind- 
ness that you desire to receive in kind from them ; in no case 
while you would claim to belong to the human family, try to 
make yourself a devil by using hell's dialect of blasphemy, calling 
your fellow-beings by opprobrious appellations, nicknames to per- 
sons or places, thereby acting the part of a thief and liar: viz., by 
stealing or secreting their truthful names, and giving a false mean 
name from thy devil unclean spirit within thee, to be a familiar 
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The law. — The true uprightness which is required by the law 
of God, expounded and confirmed by the prophets ; and by our 
Lord Messiah's law of love that speaketh nor thinketh evil of 
good advice. Which seems to be said to oppose it to the Phari- 
sees' vain ceremonies and observations, and to show how Christ's 
doctrine of love was agreeable with the law of God, being taken 
in its true sense. 

13..] At the strait. — Viz., for to come to eternal happiness do 
not follow the way of sinful pleasure to , devils, and ease of the 
world and the flesh, nor the great number and multitude of men. 
But make choice of the happy peace of mind within, though 
laborious profession of the gospel with its cross, not of wood, or 
gold, or stone ; but of combating the army of darkness evil. And 
join thyself to the small sanctified flock of the church of Christ, 
by faith and imitation of good men who follow the footsteps of 
the Redeemer in heaven's narrow way ; who are always the small- 
est number on earth. And many. — That is, the masses covet free- 
dom to get drunk; and to be left to the sway of their own 
imaginations, and to gratify all their evil habits of broad way life 
that ends in hell, their minds filled with hallucinations, lusts and 
seducing habits, dance and die. 

14.] Because strait. — Or, how strait is the holy way that 
leads to a holy heaven, where no sin can enter, nor the defiled by 
sins of evil, no liars., swearers, nicknamers, thieves, murderers, or 
followers of their evil nature, unregenerate vices, or habits of evil ; 
nor the spirit of the world, nor the devil. 

15.] Of false. — Viz., in regard to their erroneous and false 
doctrines, or of their disloyal and fraudulent intentions when they 
do utter a truth. Sheep s clothing. — Namely, in so fair an appearance 
that they cannot be distinguished, except narrowly pried into and 
thoroughly examined ; the pope of Rome is antichrist, and a false 
prophet (Rev. xiii. 18, Latin tongue = 666). The pope of the 
Church of England, a branch of Rome by way of Henry VIII. , 
first pope of England, with creeds little varied ; pope of the Greek 
church, now Emperor of Russia ; reformers with many Roman 
Catholic popish creeds of tradition and early teachings, and second 
nature beliefs while Roman Catholic preachers, viz., Martin Luther, 
at first a Roman Catholic monk and preacher, founder of the Lu- 
theran Church, Dutch Reformed Church ; John Calvin, a Roman 
Catholic preacher at first, founder of the creeds of the Presbyte- 
rians, Baptist, Congregational, etc., churches ; John Wesley, a 

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Church of England preacher of the reform school, or Protestant- 
ism, and compeer of Luther and Calvin, the founder of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church. Calvin and Wesley dug deep in Scripture lore, 
and found the heavenly spirit love diamond of inestimable value, 
viz., experimental spirit birth of Christ's good seed (Matt. xiii. 37, 
38 ; John iii. 5 ; vi. 63). But all Protestants still are trammeled 
with popery hobbles of endless hell fire tortures in their church 
creeds. When all creeds are dropped that come from pagan popery 
traditions of men, and the plain statute laws of God's Bible alone 
become the Christian's chart and guide, then unity of all holy 
spirit born watchmen will see eye to eye. Isa. Iii. 8 : Thy watch- 
men shall see eye to eye, when the Lord shall bring again Zion. 

16.] Their fruits. — By their doctrine, manner of teaching, 
spiritual efficacy in their hearts, their lives, conversations, and in- 
tentions, seeing that by some of these ways, or many of them, 
hypocrisy discovers and gives itself the lie. Thistles. — The Greek 
word properly signifieth the prickly plant called a star-thistle, or 
water caltrop. Light and darkness, love and hatred war upon 
earth. 

17.] Good tree. — The spirit born children of God, by way of 
Christ's seed sown in their spirit egg soul minds, at spirit birth 
new creature life, feel first drawn by the love of Christ to him and 
his Father by the way of the Holy Spirit Dove. The first pulsa- 
tions of the new spirit born of God is love to God and of God 
immortal life pulsations ; next it goes out in love to win other 
fellow-beings to seek for like spirit love birth. Peace deep within 
with love abounds, though nickname devils them surround, and 
call their father Christ Jesus Beelzebub. 

18.] Corrupt tree. — Corruption fruits cannot grow on a good 
tree ; nicknamers, swearers, liars, slanderers, murderers, thieves 
and all evil are the fruits of the evil tree. The good tree bears 
love, truthful names of persons and places, and a desire to soothe 
the sorrows of earth by kindness to all life animate, for all have 
their sorrows, and are soothed by kindness and love, and made 
unhappy by hate, envy and revenge. 

19.] Every tree. — Although at every stage of life from birth to 
death, varied are all the states of Adam's sin lust race, and although 
Satan's tare seed children unclean spirits live after Adamic seed 
life ends, if the soul mind egg is not impregnated by Christ's good 
seed, or the devil's tare seed (Matt. xiii. 37-40 inclusive), yet at 
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angels that kept not their probation first estate because of rebellion 
sin against God's fixed laws, and every evil creature that bringeth 
not forth good love fruit, is hewn down and cast into the fire 
(Mai. iv. 1). 

20.] Know them. — The nicknamer, swearer, liar, slanderer, etc., 
are well known evil fruits. 

21.] Lord, Lord. — This is to be understood of such as serve 
their masters more with mouth than heart, and therein are like- 
wise comprehended all hypocrites. Lie that doeth. — Not only he 
that ordereth his life and manners according to the rule of honesty, 
but he who also by faith receiveth the Son whom the Father hath 
sent, and obey his commands, not the commandments of poor silly 
fallible popes and men tradition creeds. 

22.] In that day. — Namely, of the last judgment. Prophesied. 
— Taught your popery men tradition creeds, taught your doctrines 
(not the Lord's). Prophesying is here taken for the dispensation 
of doctrine, as also 1 Cor. xiv. 1. In thy name. — As thy servants, 
by thine authority and commission, by calling upon thy grace and 
power. Wonderful. — This title in the gospel is specially appro- 
priated to the greatest and most glorious miracles. 

23.] Knew you. — I did never accept (0 pope, and whoever may 
be addressed) nor approve of you as my true servants. Gen. iv. 
25 : And Adam knew his wife again, etc. Thus Christ Jesus 
knew or knows every mortal soul's she spirit egg mind, in which 
he sows the spirit life immortal begetting of God seed, who only 
hath immortality. Matt. xiii. 37, 38; John iii. 5, 6; vi. 63 ; 
xii. 25, 26; 1 Tim. vi. 16: God only hath immortality, dwelling 
in the light which no man can approach unto. Therefore Christ 
is mediator. 

24.] There/ore. — Seeing the only external profession of the 
gospel profiteth not to everlasting salvation, learn whereupon you 
may build your assured hope thereof, viz., upon the inward power 
of it received by a lively faith, and bringing forth fruits of regen- 
eration and new obedience, which are the twofold end and effect 
thereof, from whence followeth the certainty of eternal happi- 
ness notwithstanding ; and assuage all temptations, combats, and 
difficulties. 

25.] Upon a rock. — Upon a sure foundation. The rock of 
ages (Ps. xxviii. 1). Ps. lxii. 2 : God is my rock. 

26.] Upon the sa?id. — Every one that follows men tradition 
creeds, like the Jewish corban. Mark vii. 11, 12 : And ye suffer 



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him to do no more for his father or his mother, thereby their tra- 
dition creeds of men making void God's law on Mount Sinai, 
Honor thy father and thy mother. This similitude shows the dif- 
ference between true godliness and formal or hypocritical ; for they 
seem all one in outward appearance, like the fowl's egg without a 
mate ; but let the fowl set on the unimpregnated with life milt 
eggs, tenfold time, and no life whatever is resurrected therefrom. 
Break the shell, and a resurrection of rottenness uncleanness stench 
alone is resurrected, like the unimpregnated with milt life im- 
mortal, or unclean spirit, tare life seed, and all such souls are as 
the fowl's egg void of life, and their resurrection is rottenness. 
Tsa. v. 24 : Their root shall be as rottenness (Dan. xii. 2). When 
they come to trial test, the true remains firm against all oppositions, 
but the other moulders away and falls to nothing. The regal earth 
crown baubles, and the aspiring office-holders in church and state, 
soon come to nothing. 

27.] It fell, — False men tradition creeds, of endless life tortures 
in fire, and resurrection of rotten bodies to life, as rotten apples 
resurrection to life trees, is equal to absurdity ; those that teach 
such doctrines false build on sand or rottenness. The soul mind 
spirit egg impregnated with immortal spirit of God life produces 
a spirit new creature in Christ Jesus (2 Cor. v. 17 ; Gal. vi. 7, 
8, 15). The apple seed sown in good earth produces the tree. 

28.] His doctrine. — How different Christ's truthful doctrines 
are from men tradition creeds ! 

29.] As one. — Viz., with divine and sovereign majesty, a serious 
truthfulness and spiritual power, penetrating by way of the will 
door of the soul, and impregnating the mind with immortality, and 
to the persuasion and conversion of such as are good and fear the 
Lord, and to the conviction of wicked and hardened mortals. As 
the scribes. — The substance of whose doctrines was more concerning 
frivolous and unprofitable forms and ceremonies, and unprofitable 
questions about non-essential allegorical metaphors, thereby as to- 
day making mountains out of dust atoms. And their manner of 
teaching more remiss, affected, vain, and framed for ostentation of 
themselves, and to please the auditors, as is the preaching and 
prayers of many now. God ever speaks with power. Let there 
be light ; and there was light. Let the earth bring forth grass. 
Let the waters bring forth abundantly. Let the earth bring forth 
the living creature. And it was so (Gen. i. 3, 11, 20, 24). 



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Chapter VIIT. 



3.] Leprosy. — That disease was not like the leprosy at this clay, 
but was incurable by mortal means then known. 

4.] See thou. — The cause of forbidding to tell who cured him 
seemed to be that Christ would have men look after his doctrines 
rather than after his miracles. And also because that those mir- 
acles produced for the most part nothing but vain effects of admi- 
ration, worldly honor, and desire of participating of those corporal 
favors, did rather hinder than further Christ in his chief end, 
which was the eternal salvation of souls. To the priest. — Viz., to 
be searched according to the law, be judged clean, and to have 
permission to come again into the company of men and of the 
church. For a testimony. — Exod. xxv. 16; Levit. xiv. 4. 

5.] A centurion. — A Roman and a heathen, but instructed and 
inwardly enlightened in the true religion and belief in God. 

6.] Palsy. — That is, unable to use his limbs. 

7.] I will — Jesus' spirit power went and healed him, as it now 
heals those who ask, seek, and strive with all their heart. 

8.] Lord, I am not worthy. — This is the real Christian feeling, 
always unworthy. 

9.] A man. — And thou art God. I am a subject, and thou 
supreme Lord of earth. How much more shall thy command be 
fulfilled than mortal man's ! 

10.] He marveled. — He used some external gesture of wonder- 
ing, to cause the centurion's faith to be so much the more com- 
mended and believed ; not that he was ignorant of the cause of it, 
nor that it was a faith beyond Christ's capacity and apprehension. 

11.] Many. — Namely, of the Gentiles, such as the centurion 
was : people which were aliens from the convent of God. Sit down. 
— Viz, shall all enjoy the fruits of eternal life with the holy patri- 
archs, having by faith become their promise seed heirs of the 
promises made to Abraham and their posterity. 

12.] The children. — Namely, the Jews who by the prerogative 
of God's covenant seemed to be the true heirs of his kingdom ; but 
they were merely the Adamic lust sin nature seed of Abraham's 
nature body, not spirit born of Christ's spirit love holy immortal 
life faith seed of Abraham, which was demonstrated in attempting 
to offer even Isaac if God demanded the blood life sacrifice to offended 

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justice ; emblem of Jesus' blood life of woman's seed spirit begotten 
by God's promise word in Eden (Gen. iii. 15). Gnashing. — The 
Jews, the rich man cast out into outer darkness ; hell weeping 
and gnashing of teeth fire tortures like the last rage and blasphe- 
mies and horrid noise which the devils, fallen angels, unclean 
spirits' demons, Satan's angels and wicked men, women, and chil- 
dren then upon the earth, at the close of time, the last judgment 
day, and death penalty execution in mass of all the then foes of 
God's justice, equity, and statute laws of the heavens and the earth. 
Then when the funeral pile internal earth fires, prepared for the 
devil and his angels at first, and his tare seed children, reap his death 
incorrigible rebels against God's just laws, the internal lava brim- 
stone fires will then burst forth in earthquake upheavals, and fire 
now confined by earth's crust will then at the command of the 
judge of all the earth burst forth, and in a moment consume all life 
of devils and damned, and earth as a condemned, accurst of God, 
stench mass of death and sin lust rottenness remains, bearing all 
the remaining foes of God like the sin goat shall sink while con- 
suming like lightning in flight down through lighted space into 
inane chaos darkness bottomless pit outer darkness (Matt. viii. 12). 
Rev. xx. 1, 3, 10, 11 : And I saw a great white throne, and him 
that sat on it, from whose face the earth (and the earth's atmos- 
phere, all the open space air heaven for the birds to fly in) and 
the heaven fled away ; and there was no place (in lighted space) 
found for them (14, 15 ; Rev. xxi. 1,8). 

14.] Wife's mother. — Showing that Peter the apostle had a wife, 
and the absurdity of Roman Catholic popes and priests pretending 
to be followers of Peter and forbidden to marry, and keeping 
nunneries of assignation in many parts of the earth. 

15.] Touched. — Jesus, by merely shaking hands with the sick, 
restored her to health. 

16.] With his ivord. — Using no means like earthly physicians, 
his word creates, heals or destroys. Annihilates, the vessel 
breaks. 

17.] It might be fulfilled. — That he might verify as truth what 
Isaiah had said and written, namely, that he is the only Saviour 
of souls commissioned by his Father a spirit, and who alone can 
or does impart by way of Christ spirit to intellect soul mind spirit 
eggs the immortal spirit life milt. Mortals beget by way of their 
selfish sin lust gratification. Thus spirit life immortal alone can be 
developed by the contact of the only immortal spirit life seed, from 



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the only immortal self-existent source of all life being, the al- 
mighty Jehovah God, the supreme sovereign ruler of the universe 
of lighted space. Christ Jesus, by his voluntary sufferings, ap- 
peased the universal sentence of all Adam's seed to inevitable 
body and soul death, that had no resurrection life, mercy, or 
power, but left doomed to rottenness, as all other nature product 
earth life, animate or inanimate, are still doomed, save those spirit 
egg soul minds that are impregnated with immortal life by way of 
the immortal spirit of God who only hath immortality (1 Tim. vi. 
16), in his spirit word Son who atoned for, by way of sacrificial offer- 
ing of spirit begotten blood life of woman's seed egg of nature blood 
life, the blood of the body pure and holy, without sin, of Jesus as 
the satisfaction of God's holy justice law infallible, for all who in like 
manner would sacrifice worldly lust desires and honors of mortal 
and blood life to the service of spirit life holy, in obedience to 
God's commands of love, gratitude, and adoration. And thus all 
who believe and obey the conditional requirements, and with all 
their hearts open their soul's will door to the intellect spirit egg- 
mind, thereby obeying Christ's commands, who is the only pope 
and commander-in-chief of God his Father on earth, such alone 
become, by way of spirit birth of the sjDirit egg intellect mind, 
impregnated with God's spirit in Christ, who only hath on earth 
brought life and immortality to light through the gospel, 2 Tim. 
i. 10. Acts iv. 12 : Neither is there salvation in any other. Like 
begets its like, is God's eternal law ; mortals beget but mortals. 
Isa. xl. 6 : All flesh is grass. 7 : Surely the people is grass. 15 : 
Behold the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted 
(in the universe of lighted boundless space, and numberless suns 
and systems of worlds, inhabited by exalted probation beings, of 
which earth's Adam and Eve's race are the least capable of spirit 
life immortal) as the small dust of the balance. (In their nature 
blood life brief state unspirit born of immortal spirit life seed, 
Matt. xiii. 37, 38 ; John iii. 5, 6.) 17 : All nations are before 
God as nothing (in their natural Adamic dust blood life's brief 
state), and they are counted to him less than nothing and vanity. 
(A proud, butterfly, momentary life, rebelling against God, the 
sovereign owner and creator of the sun, Mars, Venus, earth, and 
the four outside stars that with earth play round the sun, occupy- 
ing millions of miles of space lighted by the sun, where once 
chaotic darkness, inane death, void of life, slept its eternal dark- 
ness sleep, and which will sweep down at time's close again into 



164 MATTHEW VIII. 

outer darkness, and will be no more missed in G-od's boundless 
universe comparatively, I believe, than a sand on the ocean 
shore.) 

18.] The other side. — Namely, the lake of Gennesaret. 

19.] Master. — Many say Master, and Lord, Lord; even some 
church officials most frequently use great words, as teachers, dea- 
cons, class leaders, etc., on the sabbath, and lie and cheat their 
fellow-beings during the week ; even of their own class, under 
false pretences, they borrow money that they never intended to 
return. Such vile hypocrites call nicknames freely. 

20.] The foxes. — This was spoken either for a trial of the 
truth of the scribes' profession, or for a preparative for him to 
keep it, being in time instructed in the condition which is insepar- 
ably connected to the gospel, namely, the cross. Nests. — Or 
places to go and shelter and rest themselves in. The Son. — Christ 
calls himself so frequently in the gospel, to signify the truth of his 
human nature, by way of woman's seed egg nature life, and the 
purity, and holiness, and the excellency of his person above all 
other men. As who should say that a man which hath in all 
ages been foretold, expected, desired, and often seen by the pro- 
phets (Dan. vii. 13) for a prelude of his incarnation and manifes- 
tation in the flesh. 

21.] Bury. — Assist him in his extreme old age, until the end 
of his life. 

22.] Let the dead. — In trespasses and sins: Eph. ii. 1. Being 
called to the ministry of everlasting life seed gospel truth life 
eternal words, leave off those duties belonging to a mortal transi- 
tory brief life, to those that are like them, and have their callings 
and places therein, that thou mayest readily and without dis- 
turbance follow the duties of a spiritual life, which are incompati- 
ble with those of a temporal life of nature ; that thou mayest also 
bear the heavenly spirit life immortal message of conditional par- 
don and immortal life to thy nature life father and kindred and 
neighbors, and all whosoever will obey (his dear mother probably 
was not living, as he mentions only his father). 

23.] Followed him. — They were drawn by love's magnet, and 
voluntarily willingly followed. 

24.] A great tempest. — Christ would thereby try the faith of 
his disciples, to show and make them sensible of their own weak- 
ness and helpless infancy in grace life. 

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from sin's drugged inebriation, and behold death's tornadoes of 
diseases from sin's sweeping near them. 

26.] Rebuked. — To signify God's power to appease the com- 
motion, and that tempests obey his commands. 

28.] The other side. — Of the lake Gennesaret. Gergesenes. — 
It is thought to be the ancient nation of the Geshurites (Josh. 
xiii. 13), or (Gen. x. 16) Girgasites, where the city of Gadara was, 
called by St. Mark and St. Luke the country of the Gadarenes ; 
it is eastward beyond Jordan. The tombs.— Into which the devils 
forced and detained them, to frighten them with the graves of the 
dead. 

29.] To torment ns. — Driving us out of our delight in torment- 
ing these poor wretches. We know that there is an appointed 
time at the end of this world's probation and last judgment day 
and close of time, when we and all unclean spirit life, and all mor- 
tals that serve our prince of evil darkness the devil, being his un- 
clean spirit tare seed begotten children by way of evil impregna- 
tions of their soul spirit egg minds, with whom we affiliate as 
brethren, and all fallen angels that kept not their first estate, and 
all rebels against the laws of the supreme spirit God Almighty, 
and incorrigibly wicked of all ages past that shall then retain a 
particle of life spirit expanded ad infinitum from the germ life 
spirit breath of the only fountain of life enduring, and only source 
of life immortal. The torment of the death tortures of the in- 
corrigibly wicked unclean devil tare seed spirit life is hereby 
clearly demonstrated by the unclean spirits' cry before the time, 
showing that they have, like the sentenced murderer, a knowledge 
of their appointed time of death. Ezek. xviii. 4 ; Rev. xx. 14 : 
This is the second death. First, blood life body death ; second, soul 
death, which wholly annihilates all Adam's rebel sin lust seed, not 
spirit born of Christ's spirit life immortal seed from his father, 
who only hath immortality ; by way of the soul spirit egg intel- 
lect mind, showing heaven to be an intellectual spirit life eternal 
abode of infinite wisdom food from God the Father of all spirit 
life holy pure and immortal (eternal). Rev. xxi. 7 : He that over- 
cometh shall inherit all things ; and I will be his God, and he 
shall be my son. As all spirit life milt of immortal life alone can 
impregnate the soul spirit egg mind with immortal life, thus 
woman's nature egg, unimpregnated by life milt from a male, soon 
rots, and passes off in excrement ; thus the soul mind decays, and 
like the crushed or rotted grain of wheat is void of breath of God, 



166 MATTHEW IX. 

the life thereof. Gen. i. 11 : And God said, let the earth bring 
forth grass, the herb yielding seed. Rev. xxi. 8 : But murderers, 
and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars (nick- 
namers, who are liars, must be included, for all liars unrepentant 
are included) shall have their part in the lake which burnetii with 
fire and brimstone, as the lava now bursting forth in its fiery rag<3 
to consume the foes of a holy just God : which is the second or 
soul death. Ezek. xviii. 20, 24, 27 : First grass body death of 
blood life. Isa. xl. 7 : Surely the people is grass. The green grass 
and colorless water makes body life's white milk. 

30.] Swine. — Forbidden food to the Jews ; still eaten in vast 
quantities, but unhealthy food. 

31.] Suffer us. — The devil always desires to do mischief, but he 
can do no more than God permits. 

32.] Into the sea. — Namely, the lake of Gennesaret. 

33.] Kept them. — Those hog-tenders, like whisky bar-tenders, 
dislike to have their profits cut off by the casting out of the poor 
defiled drunkards the unclean spirit appetites for the intoxicating 
beverage. The hogs went for drink when the devils got in them. 

34.] They besought him. — Not for any hatred they bare to 
him, but for fear of that divine power which they only considered 
in him (Luke viii. 37). An ordinary motion of a man's con- 
science, not yet confident in God's grace, when he feels his majesty's 
approach. Depart. — The Gergesenes esteemed their swine of 
more value to them than their souls' immortality, or than Jesus 
Christ, the only being that could impart immortal life impregna- 
tion to their souls' spirit egg mind intellect, their only chance of 
future life and salvation. Thus all mortals are inclined by carnal 
fallen sinful nature to say, Depart ; not now. 



Chapter IX. 



1.] Into his own. — Namely, Capernaum, where he made his 
ordinary abode (Matt. iv. 13 ; Mark ii. 1). 

2.] Seeing their faith. — As also his that was sick of pa^y, for 
without faith there is no forgiveness. Thy sins. — Sins are the 
cause of this thy disease, and generally of all those evils that befall 
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3.] Blasphemeth. — Attributing unto the mortal woman's seed 
body, like their own, they imagined falsely from appearances, the 
authority of pardoning sins, which belongeth to God alone. 

4.] Knowing their. — As truly God's spirit word Son, the Prince 
Lord God Messiah, the only searcher of hearts. 

5.] Whether is. — According 'to your carnal judgment, it is a 
higher and more difficult thing to heal this diseased man by my 
word than to forgive him his sins. Now I will do that which you 
judge to be the most difficult, and is visible ; to show that I can 
do that which you esteem to be less, and is spiritual, and hidden ; 
both equally depending upon the same divine and supreme power. 

6.] The Son. — Namely, he whom you so much undervalue. 

8.] The multitudes. — These were ignorant of Christ's divinity 
annexed to his humanity, and therefore they speak so slightly of 
it. Unto men. — Such as they thought Christ to be ; being not 
yet instructed by experimental spirit birth, new creature spirit 
life of his seed. 

9.] Matthew. — And Levi also (Luke v. 27). Receipt of cus- 
tom. — Where taxes and tribute were paid. 

10.] Ir the house. — Of Matthew, as Luke saith. Sinners. — 
Unspirit born men, of wicked life previous. 

11.] Pharisees saw it. — The self-righteous unspirit born Phari- 
sees were zealous to find motes in others. 

12.] They that be. — As you presumptuously judge of your- 
selves, imagining that ye be just and holy, despising such weak 
ones as sought Jesus Christ to be cured. 

13.] And learn. — You hypocrites do set all your piety and 
righteousness chiefly in ceremonies and external discipline, and hold 
them to be profane and unworthy of your conversation which 
do not follow you and adhere to your false tradition creeds of 
men's manufacture. Whereas, by this saying of the prophet, you 
might have learned that the most acceptable service to God is 
that mercy which I use towards poor sinners, procuring their sal- 
vation and amendment, by my familiarity with them, in truthful 
sayings and loving kindness ; seeing that grace by the gospel 
which I am mediator for, and distributor of, is but to repentant 
sinners. Righteous. — Self-righteous, such as are puffed up with 
a vain conceit of their own righteousness, as doctors of men tradi- 
tion false creeds divinity. 

15.] Of the bridechamber. — Namely, of the bridegroom's most 
intimate friends and companions : John iii. 29. I will not disturb 



168 MATTHEW IX. 

the joy my disciples conceive by reason of my presence ; after my 
departure out of the world, they will have afflictions and sorrow 
sufficient, and time enough to feel them. 

1 6.] No man. — Besides this cause, I have also a regard not to 
oppress the weakness of those which are mine, with too vigorous a 
discipline in these beginnings. New cloth unto an old garment. — The 
old garment is the Adamic nature blood life body ; a new addition 
cannot be made to that ; to make blood life immortal, it would be 
worse than it now is. Gen. iii. 24 : A naming sword which turned 
every way to keep the (narrow appointed spirit life, new spirit 
birth, new creature in Christ Jesus, way. 2 Cor. v. 17 ; Gal. vi. 
7, 8, 15, new creature) way of the tree of life, Christ Jesus. 
John vi. 35 : I am the bread of life. John xi. 25 : I am the 
resurrection and the life. John xiv. 6 : Jesus saith unto him, I 
am the way, and the truth, and the life. No man can come unto 
the Father but by me; clearly showing the way of life kept by the 
cherubims and flaming sword, that consume all who seek not the 
spirit birth holy narrow way to immortal life, Christ Jesus. 

17.] Old bottles. — They were made of leather, and in leathern 
vessels wine was carried upon asses and camels. At that day 
glass bottles were unknown. The old leathern bottles would not, 
when cracked, withstand the pressure of the fixed air ; and also 
illustrate nature bodies, old in sin : new spirit life wine could not 
become immortal in them easily. Prov. viii. 17 : They that seek 
me early shall find me. 

18.] Ruler. — They were certain superior ecclesiastical persons 
in particular Jewish assemblies, and there pronounced what was 
right according to law, ended controversies, and punished ex- 
orbitances. 

20.] And touched. — This woman was moved through humble 
faith belief pure, and by this emblem all seekers of immortal life 
by way of Christ from God who only hath immortality, through 
faith belief prayer by way of the Mediator, will be impregnated with 
spirit birth life the moment they repent of all their sins, and 
truthfully seek God by way of Christ the only way and life 
mediator, faith life's eternal love conductor. His garment. — She 
ascribed not this power of healing to Christ's garments (as I fear 
many gnat strainers do), but to himself, as by the next verse 
appeareth. 

21.] If I may. — She felt in her humble simplicity love for Jesus, 
that if even she could, unworthy of his notice as she was, but 



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even touch his garment (emblem of his nature woman's seed body- 
life, in which his infinite spirit love life linked with divinity dwelt 
in restrained power), she might be healed ; it certainly could not 
harm her. Thus should reason every unspirit born nature de- 
scendant of Adam, when like hers a public acknowledgment of 
belief in the power of the spirit God, who only hath immor- 
tality life to impart through Christ his spirit word Son, commis- 
sioned to utter his conditional life impartations to the impregna- 
tion of the atom time soul mind spirit egg intellect, immortal life, 
spirit birth while the soul remains under blood life quickening 
life nature's life eggs. All animate nature life germinates in 
females, like blossoms of the inanimate nature life, which female 
egg germ of nature Adamic Eve life woman's seed must have 
the impregnation quickening life, or it monthly passes off as 
excrements of daily nature life food. Thus twelve embryos 
at least yearly decay, and produce nothing, like the soul spirit 
egg mind, if they remain until blood life death unimpregnated 
with good or evil. The male milt, in vastly greater numbers 
of life-imparting powers, also is taken up by the absorbents, if 
unused, and passes off with the nature life food of which it is a 
part, and therefore cannot possibly be in any state, even in blood 
life beings matured immortal, or anything more than nature that 
produced the component parts and union quickened to life by 
mortals, who cannot beget immortals. 

22.] Daughter. — Her faith in the efficacy of Christ Jesus im- 
pregnated her soul mind egg by mere faith touch, and produced 
an intellectual spirit birth new creature daughter while in the 
female blood life body form, but without sex when resurrected 
from the body grave at blood life death. GUI. iii. 27 : As many 
of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 
28 : There is neither male nor female : for ye are all one in Christ 
Jesus. 

23.] The minstrels. — They were certain hired people which did 
play mournful tunes at funerals, according to the custom of the 
Jews (2 Chron. xxxv. 25) and of other nations. 

24.] Is not dead. — In respect of me, and of my divine power, 
this death is but a sleep. I will revive this maiden to blood life 
pulsations and lung inflations by my word, as if she were but asleep. 

28.] Believe ye. — Christ would be acknowledged by these blind 
men before their fellow-mortals, as to-day by poor blind unspirit 
born sinners seeking for spirit life birth sight (Matt. x. 32). 
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32.] A dumb. — Either naturally dumb, and possessed of an 
evil spirit, or only from the evil spirit. 

33.] When the devil. — Showing clearly that devils enter the 
souls of mortals, or are natives born of the soul mind spirit egg 
by the impregnation thereof by the evil spirit. Matt. xiii. 38— 1-0 : 
The tares are the children of the wicked one. The enemy that 
sowed them is the devil. 

34.] Through the prince. — Namely, by magic art, and by a 
covenant made with the chief of devils, called elsewhere Beelzebub 
(a nickname that devils in mortals called the Lord Jesus Christ), 
by whose authority and power he driveth out inferior devils. 
This was blasphemy against the Holy Ghost, the highest impiety, 
that never hath forgiveness from God, but inevitable annihilation 
destruction awaits all such nicknamers, whose foul devil breath of 
nicknames would mar the love peace joys of heaven, if it were 
possible that an unrepentant liar nicknamer could be permitted to 
enter heaven to call God's spirit word creation power omnipotent 
pure and holy, Beelzebub. 

35.] The gospel. — By which God gathered together his people 
to reign over them. 

36.] Moved with compassion. — Not so much for their corporal 
labor in following of him, as because he knew them desirous to hear 
God's word, which was not preached to them by their ordinary 
teachers and pastors, and no prophet of God since Malachi, four 
hundred years previous. 

37.] The harvest. — There are many who by the inward opera- 
tion of the Holy Ghost are, as it were, already ripe, and disposed* 
to receive the gospel spirit's quickening impregnation of their 
soul's spirit egg mind and new creature life immortal spirit birth 
(John iii. 5, 6). And to be gathered into the church, as it were 
into the Lord's barn, to there in appointed time, at blood life 
death of stalk body and head chaff, to be removed therefrom 
into the heavenly spirit garner as clean wheat, but the body be- 
gotten in lust sin. Ps. li. 5 : Behold I was shapen in iniquity ; 
and in sin did my mother conceive me. 10 : Create in me a clean 
heart, God ; and renew a right spirit within me. 17 : The 
sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite 
heart, God, thou wilt not despise. 

38.] Send forth. — A term which represented God's powerful 
operation in stirring up and moving men to the solemn work of 
the holy ministry. Jer. xx. 8 : The word of the Lord was made 



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a reproach unto me, and a derision daily. 7 : Thou art stronger 
than I, and hast prevailed : every one (of the wicked inhabitants 
of his neighborhood) mocketh me in derision ; but the uncalled 
church and state official office-holders are called by a desire to lord 
it, and receive a large salary, and receive the applause and ap- 
proval of the wicked, by way of conforming to the spirit of the 
wicked on earth led by the spirit of the world and Satan in union. 
But really called by the movings within by the Holy Spirit of hum- 
ble truth, such feel the necessity which is imposed upon them of 
preaching the gospel (1 Cor. ix. 16), and the readiness which is 
required therein. Such are known by their fruits of love of the 
right. 



Chapter X. 



1.] Twelve disciples. — As he had established twelve patriarchs, 
so would he in this number of twelve now build and renew his 
church. Gave them poiv er. — The right use of miracles is herein 
seen, and to what purpose they are wrought, namely, for a witness 
to and establishing of Gk)d's word ; for none but those commis- 
sioned of God could by any other power vary God's fixed laws of 
the universe of lighted boundless space. 

2.] Apostles. — A Greek word, which signified sent or deputed 
to do some business, ambassadors ; as were the twelve called, be- 
cause they were to have no certain abode of residence, and their 
ministry was to be about the world as in a strange country, out of 
the church, to carry ambassage of God's conditional reconciliation, 
and to gather his elect together. (Not as popes, cardinals, bishops, 
and priests, with fixed residences and large salaries, and palatial 
dwellings, as in Rome and England's church and state lord wolves 
in fine sheep's clothing, faring sumptuously every day on the ex- 
torted robbery taxation of the helpless poor.) The first. — Not only 
in the list as elders, and first called with Andrew (Matt. iv. 18), 
but also, as it would seem, conduct and presidency over the other, 
as the eldest brother, by the Lord's own disposing, for the time 
they lived together ; for when they were separated there is no such 
thing spoken of, and all were without any superiority in degree, 
much less in dominion (clearly showing popery, cardinals, etc., to 



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be antichrist.) Is called — By a surname given him by Christ 
himself (John xxi. 15). 

3.] Lebbseus. — Who is the same as is called Judas, the brother 
of James, the son of Alpheus (Luke vi. 16), whose the epistle 
is, entitled St. Jude. It is thought that Lebbaeus, the Hebrew 
word, and Thaddeus, the Syriac word, are of one and the same 
signification, viz., a man of heart or breast. 

4.] The Canaanite. — Which is, according to some,, of the city 
of Cana ; according to others it is the name of a religion or sect : 
namely, of Zelotes, or zealed, as it is set down, Luke vi. 15 ; 
wherewith the Hebrew word may very well agree. Iscariot. — It 
is not certainly known from whence the surname is taken. Some 
interpret it the mercenary apostate, or the man that doth or shall 
revolt for reward. So Judas may be named after his treason,, and 
in this sense might be so named here by way of anticipation for 
his avarice which did appear afterward. Others hold that it sig- 
nifieth a man of Kerioth, which was a city of Judea (Josh. xv. 
25). Betrayed him. — This was also spoken by way of anticipation, 
like that of Mary (John xi. 2). 

5.] Go not. — This and those things which follow are but only 
concerning this their first mission at that time. Samaritans. — 
These were a mixture of pagan nations who after the captivity of the 
ten tribes were brought in and settled in their country, where 
they set up a false worship in the mountain of Gerizim (2 Kings 
xvii. 24, 29 ; John iv. 20) ; whereupon it was but as a bastard 
nation, and they were held as pagans. 

6.] The lost. — Namely, that are in the way to perdition through 
their ignorance and by means of their false doctrines, and evil con- 
duct of their teachers. Isa. liii. 6 : All we like sheep have gone 
astray ; we have turned every one to his own way (tradition creeds 
of pagan Roman Catholicism, and Babel spirit life with rotten bodies 
instead of spirit life birth of Christ spirit life immortal seed new 
creature life. 2 Cor. v. 17 ; Gal. vi. 7, 8, 15 ; Rom. viii. 9 : If any 
man have not the spirit of Christ he is none of his. 

7.] Preach. — Men must begin with and ever retain Scripture 
truths and doctrines, and build on God's plainly revealed statute 
laws, showing it a plain matter of life or death with every human 
offspring of Adam's sin lust seed sooner or later, of both soul and 
body, each passing day of their brief earth's sojourn ; each holds 
their will door to their soul mind choice of good or evil spirit im- 
pregnations, because it is the foundation of faith. Isa. viii. 20 : 



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To the law and to the testimony : if they speak not according to 
this word, it is because there is no light in them. 

8.] Freely give. — That is, apply yourself freely to the exercise 
of it, without expecting any worldly profit by it, or reward or pay 
for telling people how to get to heaven. 

9.] Provide neither. — Trouble not yourselves with things which 
may be obstacles to the execution of your calling. Your purses. 
— Girdles wherein anciently they carried their money, as in 
purses. 

10.] Neither shoes. — In St. Mark, the Lord suffered them to 
take shoes on their feet, and a staff in their hands, whereby it ap- 
pears in this place plainly, that they should freely and speedily 
take their journey in the state they were then dressed, and 
clothing on hand, without any further preparation. (They were 
not ordered to go to college, as now, before they are allowed to 
preach, though ordered to do so by the Lord the commander- 
in-chief of the army of light, that warreth against the evil army 
of darkness.) Being sure that God would provide for all real ne- 
cessities, food and clothing, if they were God's truthful ministers, 
there is no command to ask or receive a large salary, or church 
office with a state income like the Bishop of London, nor to preach 
politics. James iv. 4 : The friendship of the world is enmity with 
God. Whosoever therefore will be a (political or otherwise friend 
to worldly pride or spirit of the world, or the devil or his fashionable 
dances) friend of the world, is the enemy of God. 

11.] Is worthy. — Prepared by God's inward grace and virtue to 
receive the preaching of the gospel with humility, fervent desire, 
etc. (2 Cor. iii. 5). There. — With such a man. Ye go thence. — 
Out of that city, castle, or place. 

12.] Salute it. — Saying, Peace unto this household ; or, The 
blessing of God be on all who love God here. 

13.] Let your peace. — Let your blessing be ratified and accom- 
plished by the Lord. Return. — Those desires and well wishes of 
yours being not accepted, and being deemed by the occupants there- 
of unprofitable to their house, let them be as a witness before Grod 
of your zeal and good- will desires, which God will reward as if 
they had received you, when he resurrects you from your mortal 
blood life body at its journey's end on earth. 

14.] Shake off. — In token that you will have no communion 
with that people, and also that God's curse and annihilation await 
them (Neh. v. 13). 

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15.] More tolerable. — For they were not so warned and preached 
unto. 

16.] As sheep. — He informs them of their burdensome calling, 
that when they are in extremity they should not be astonished, 
As serpents. — Gen. iii. 1. The meaning is, mix your simplicity 
and clearness of conscience towards men, with wariness towards 
mortals ; do no mortals hurt, call no person or place by opprobrious 
names to offend their nobler feelings with low, ill-bred names, given 
in derision of each other by children of the devil, sunk in mind 
and body in sin's pollutions; see that there is nothing of the kind 
accepted by you. If they call you by the nickname that they called 
me falsely, Beelzebub, call them truthfully as I did, children of the 
devil (John viii. 44), by answering a fool according to his folly, 
but truthfully, that all nicknamers and other liars, and thieves, and 
blasphemers, and murderers, adulterers, and sinner servants of the 
devil, in all their lust filthiness, are children of their father the 
devil. Provoke ye no man, save thus in rebuke for their malicious 
vile insolence ; keep yourselves from the world's indignation, by 
middle ways of retiring and avoiding the nicknamers and slanderers 
of the pure in heart, in the same way you would avoid a rotten 
dead carcass, for all such are dead in trespasses and in sins within, 
though without they are as a gilded coffin, with a rotten body 
within. Finally, beware of any reciprocal violence, by brutal combat 
fights, for thereby you would become like them, which is incom- 
patible with the true profession and preaching of the gospel ; and 
if both these virtues will not free you from Satan's tare seed chil- 
dren's snares and annoyance, then remit yourselves absolutely to 
Grod. Harmless. — Or sincere and innocent of doing evil. 

17.] But beware. — Trust not, nor associate yourselves with 
mortals that are opposed to the gospel ; suspect them always, for 
hatred against gospel truths prevaileth above all natural or civil 
respects. Beware therefore of them so far as your conscience and 
your vocation will suffer you. Councils. — They were the Jews' 
courts of judgment, to whom it was permitted by the Romans to 
proceed against those that offended and did contrary to their law, 
so far as scourging, but not to any capital punishment (Matt, xxiii. 
34; Acts v. 40; xxii. 19). 

18.] For a testimony. — Gk>d will suffer it and so dispose of it 
to the end that the Jews who shall give you up, and the Gentiles 
to whom you shall be given up, may by your free confession of 
my name and truth, on the one side have notice thereof, and 



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on the other side be convinced and made inexcusable in their 
obstinacy" 

11).] Take no thought. — Seek not the means in your own 
strength to overcome your adversaries, for Satan the prince of 
darkness evil is their commander-in-chief. Unclean spirits arc also 
his aiders and abettors to arm vile tare seed children of the devil, 
or devils in human outside form. And Satan was once an angel 
of great power while in his probation state in the sixth or next to 
the lowest heaven, our sun's atmosphere, and Satan's probation 
does not close until the end of time, and he has the power of 
death, being the death penalty sheriff (Heb. ii. 14). Rely alone 
on Grod's omnipotent power, and you are safe. 

23.] Flee ye. — Quickly withdraw into another place where you 
may perform your charge ; and do not think it to be lost labor to 
go from place to place ; for in a short time I will make the truth 
of my coming appear. Till the Son. — Till it doth clearly appear, 
especially to all spirit born of immortal life seed from Grod, that 
the promised Messiah is come in the Spirit ; such shall the power 
of my spirit be, when joined to your preaching. 

24.] His master. — The father is or should ever be master 
of his household ; not children or wife. No wife or child until 
possessed of the devil, or unclean spirits, will attempt master- 
ship. 

25.] The Master. — The spirit word creation power Son of al- 
mighty Jehovah God, and only spirit begotten Son of Grod, and 
father and owner of the pure in heart by way of redemption sac- 
rifice. Heb. iii. 6 : Christ as father over his own house ; whose 
house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of 
the hope firm unto the end. Beelzebub. — An opprobrious appel- 
lation nickname given to the Son of the Most High Grod, the 
Prince of the eternal heavens, the Lord Jesus Christ Messiah. 
If they have called the father of the children a nickname very 
mean and villainous, what better can my beloved apostle John ex- 
pect but that he also shall be nicknamed ? How much more shall 
they nickname the persons and places of the residence of Grod's 
household ! The Jews attribute the nickname they gave Jesus, 
Beelzebub, to be the name of the prince of devils (Matt. xii. 24), 
by reason that all the ancient Baals were called devils (Deut. xxxii. 
17 ; Ps. cvi. 37). 

26.] Nothing covered. — Do your offices courageously, and be 
not affrighted for the world's oppositions, because that at the last 



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the light of the gospel will break forth, and shall shine through 
all obstacles. 

27.] In darkness. — Severally and as it were in secret. The 
housetops, openly, because they were made flat like open terraces. 

28.] Kill — Fear not them which kill the body, as in wars ; is 
not the body blood life dead, when the mortal is killed ? does not 
the body and blood and all the body parts rot like any other animal 
body, and like inanimate nature life products, of which the bodies 
of all mortals are composed ? When the apple body is rotten like 
the human body, it contains seeds that if removed before rotten- 
ness death destroys their vitality, they by being cultivated in good 
ground produce trees, and the trees produce new body apples ; but 
the rotten apple body is never resurrected. Thus the human body, 
rotted, is never resurrected. The soul, like the apple seed emblem, 
though of a different animate life nature that requires impregna- 
tion life quickening seed milt, like the animate nature life bodies 
of all animate earth life, which first develops in an egg form in 
all females ; which nature egg, unimpregnated, is as a rotten po- 
tato very soon, and wholly void of any resurrection seed in any 
form whatever. Thus souls unimpregnated by immortal life seed 
(Matt. xiii. 37, 38), or Satanic unclean spirit tare seed (38-40) 
are as the potato, wholly void of any life seed ; when their bodies 
die, their soul spirit egg mind unimpregnated with good or evil is 
as the fowl's egg, without a male or any other of all animate life 
eggs in females unimpregnated with life male milt seed. The 
fowls may sit on them, or the ostrich leave its eggs thus unim- 
pregnated in the hot sands, but no life in any form whatever can 
be regenerated therefrom after it is laid void of male milt ; break 
the shell after six weeks, and nothing is resurrected but death rot- 
tenness stench. Isa. v. 23, 24 : Woe unto them which justify the 
wicked ; their root shall be rottenness (Dan. xii. 2). Thus fear 
God, who withdrawing his rays of life from you would in a moment 
thereby annihilate all life in you, and thereby destroy annihilate 
both soul and body eternally, in the common dust of the grave, or 
hell, to cover from sight. The same word is used by our Lord, 
kill the body, and kill the soul. Mortals cannot kill the soul, but 
God can. Matt. xix. 26 : With God all things are possible. 
Mark x. 27 : Jesus saith, With men it is impossible, but not with 
God ; for with God all things are possible. Luke xviii. 27 : 
And Jesus said, The things which are impossible with men are 
possible with God. Everything is possible with God which is not 



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in opposition to himself. It is impossible for God to lie (Heb. v-i. 
18). Acts xvii. 28 : In God we live, and move, and have our 
being, like the sunlight ; if God withdraws his life rays, the mortal 
or mortals instantly die and commence to decompose, and are soon 
like the rotten potato, if their souls have not been impregnated 
with spirit male milt. As well claim the sunlight as ours, and 
that it cannot withdraw from us, and leave us in darkness death 
emblem, as to say God's life rays cannot be withdrawn from our 
souls. God will not resurrect the wicked dead, and impart of his 
immortal spirit life to the incorrigibly wicked, to supernatural ly 
keep them in life, merely to torture himself, or life which can alone 
emanate from God. 1 Tim. vi. 16 : God only hath immortality, 
dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto. John iii. 
5, 6 ; v. 40 : To the wicked Jesus saith, Ye will not come to me, 
that ye might have life. Ezek. xviii. 4 : The soul that sinneth it 
shall die. 

29.] A farthing. — Which was a kind of money then in use, 
being eight mites in value. 

31.] Ye. — Christ's disciples, and all spirit born of Christ's spirit 
from God seed (John iii. 5). 

32.] Therefore. — For a conclusion therefore of the exhortation 
and truth proclamations that I have made unto you who have or 
may comply with the truthful conditions of the gospel proclama- 
tion, and such only will I acknowledge before my Father which is 
in heaven, as my spirit begotten children. Shall confess me. — 
Made an open and free volunteer profession of believing in the 
truth of my gospel, and in me as their only Saviour. Rom. x. 9, 
10 : With the mouth confession is made unto salvation. 

33.] Deny. — Refuse to receive Christ's spirit birth seed (Matt. 
xiii. 37, 38) by way of their soul will door into their souls in- 
tellectual spirit egg mind, which by way of the infinite mercy rays 
of God in the Holy Spirit or Ghost, hatches quickly to spirit born 
new creature in love's likeness image of Christ Jesus God's infinite 
love spirit word, and communicated to mortals by way of the only 
spirit begotten of God beings, by way of the Virgin Mary's nature 
life seed egg, which mediator Jesus alone of all that pertain to im- 
mortal life can beget spiritually, by way of his immortal love pul- 
sating life and soul mind intellect womb, of those that seek God 
through the only mediator between mortal life and immortal life. 
John vi. 63, 68 : Thou hast the words of eternal life. John iv. 
24 : God is a spirit, and they that worship him must worship him 



178 MATTHEW X. 

in spirit. John iii. 5, 6 : Except a man be born of the water and 
of the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. Rom. 
viii. 1 : There is therefore now no condemnation to them which 
are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the 
spirit. 6 : To be carnally minded is (spiritual) death ; but to be 
spiritually minded is life and peace. 9 : But ye (spirit born holy) 
are not in the flesh, bat in the spirit, if so be the Spirit of God 
dwell in you. Now if any man have not the spirit of Christ, he 
is none of his. 1 Cor. xv. 23 : Christ the first (resurrection) 
fruits ; afterwards (second resurrection) they that are Christ's 
(third resurrection rottenness.) Isa. v. 24 ; Dan. xii. 2 : And all 
unclean spirit tare seed with Satan is annihilated at the close of 
time. Heb. ii. 14 : Forasmuch then as the (spirit born holy) 
children (1 John v. 18 : Begotten of God sinneth not) are par- 
takers of flesh and blood (by Adamic nature sin lust birth). Jesus 
also himself took part of the same (woman's seed spirit begotten 
without male seed, Gen. iii. 15), that through (blood life 
nature) death he might destroy (annihilate) him that had the 
power of death, that is, the devil (1 Cor. xv. 26 : The last enemy). 

34.] Peace. — Christ insureth an inward peace into the con- 
sciences of those that are his, but they must be at continual strife 
with the wicked. But a sword. — Not by any natural property of 
Christ or of his gospel, which contrariwise teacheth nothing but 
benignity, patience, and meekness, and is the only means of true 
peace with God, and among men ; but by the devil and the wicked 
inhabitants of the world opposing themselves against Christ, his 
kingdom, and by reason of this merciful delay, their deadly hatred 
of truth and gospel light violates natural and civil duties often, and 
respect for even the peaceful natural rights of Christians. 

35.] At variance. — This proceeds not from the harmony which 
is in Christ the prince of peace, but by the wickedness of mortals 
who will not be obedient to God's laws and commands. 

36.] Foes. — Natural depravity, nature body lusts, and covetous 
desires and sinful thoughts within. 

37.] Lovetli. — Father and mother God commanded all on earth 
to love, and also God, with superior to self and parental love of 
nature life, which all animate life on earth hath more or less 
affinity with, by inbred nature love regard for offspring, and parents 
of blood life nature bodies. The superior love comes alone from 
spirit life beings born of God's spirit life immortal, pure and holy, 
which beareth the spirit fruits, and pulsates in spirit born new 



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creatures in Christ Jesus, infinite love born from a God who 
pulsates love, goodness, and mercy ; thus we readily perceive the 
reason why the blood life nature mother Mary was renowned 
(Matt. xii. 48-50). For immortal attributes that are infinitely 
superior in all holy beings in love to their spirit father, to nature 
self, and earthly nature parents, which we should ever love superior 
to self love ; to forget or neglect love and honor to parents is a 
horrid sin. Matt. xxii. 37 : Jesus saith unto him, Thou shalt 
love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, 
and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment 
(Dent. vi. 5). Matt. xxii. 39: And the second is like unto it, 
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two command- 
ments hang all the law and the prophets. 1 John iv. 1G : God is 
love. 

38.] That talceih not. — That doth not dispose himself in a vol- 
untary obedience and patience to bear those afflictions which are 
laid upon him in his earthly pilgrimage at variance with the world. 
In love and imitation of Jesus, who gave the woman's seed blood 
life holy to save believers of his truths ; his cross, not Christ's. 

39.] That findetli. — He that shall imagine he hath so well pro- 
vided for the safety of his life, and for his worldly goods, by re- 
nouncing the gospel, shall fall into everlasting death, that hath no 
resurrection rays of life or vitality that could possibly be quickened 
into life, viz. rottenness (Isa. v. 24). 

40.] Receiveth me. — He comforteth his disciples against the 
ungrateful undervaluing and despising of them. Him. — Eeceiveth 
immortal spirit life from God, who only hath immortality in Christ. 

41.] He that receiveth. — He that through Christian charity shall 
do good to Christ's children and servants, those that believe in the 
Lord by reason that they are such, and not for any other civil, 
natural, or vicious respects, shall be rewarded by me. Prophet. 
— A minister and speaker of Scripture truths. Of a righteous 
man. — A. spirit born of Christ's spirit seed, a holy man, and com- 
mendable for his spiritual virtues. 

42.] Of these little ones. — Mark x. 15 : Whosoever shall not 
receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter 
therein. 1 John iv. 4 : Ye are of God, little children. Matt. xi. 
25 : Jesus said, I thank thee, Father, Lord of heaven and 
earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and pru- 
dent, and hast revealed them unto babes. Even so, Father : for so 
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Chapter XI. 



1.] Commanding. — As commander-in-chief over all in time's 
space, he commanded his disciples to go and preach through the 
land of Judea, and confirm their doctrine with signs and wonders. 
In their cities. — In the cities of Galilee, from whence most of the 
apostles were. 

2.] He sent. — Not for himself, who was fully assured of the 
truth concerning Christ's person (John i. 29), but to assure his 
disciples thereof by Christ's most effectual word and presence. 

3.] Art thou he. — The Messias which was promised our fore- 
fathers. 

4.] And see. — For Christ did miracles in their presence. 

5.] The blind. — He seems to send them back to consider upon 
the prophecies Isa. xxxv. 5 and lxi. 1, in which these benefits 
were promised to the church by means of the Messiah at his com- 
ing. The poor. — Such as could not, like the rich, build elegant 
churches and own pews therein, and pay a large salary to support 
a lot of titled officials in gaudy trappings, to simply tell the way 
to heaven ;• of which the most of that class of aristocracy that 
lord it over what they call God's heritage, but experimentally they 
have little or no knowledge. The humble perplexed, and such 
as had a contrite heart, could then by thousands, without money 
and without price, hear from Christ truthfully the way to im- 
mortal life, under the canopied starry heavens, a decoration infi- 
nitely above any churches on earth, and lighted up by the sun far 
excelling all church light, with the shady forest trees of inanimate 
life, decorated with living green leaves. By miracles the poor were 
fed. Iiev. xxii. 17 : Whosoever will, let him take the water of life 
freely. Isa. lv. 1 : Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the 
waters, and he that hath no money ; come ye, buy and eat ; yea, 
come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. 3 : 
Incline your ear, and come unto me : hear, and your soul shall 
live. What the soul promised life are not all immortal, saith the 
pagan tradition creed preachers. 

6.] Shall not. — That shall not dislike the plain unvarnished 
truth ; nor by reason of my doctrine being contrary to the sense 
of depraved flesh lusts sins, and the tidings of the cross tribula- 
tions (1 Cor. i. 21; Gal. v. 11). 



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7.] Into the wilderness. — Where John the Baptist preached. 
A reed. — Namely, a thing of nought. The meaning is, Did you 
go by chance, or to behold some worldly greatness, or to hear the 
word of Grod from an excellent prophet of his, such an one as you 
believe John was ? If it be so, why do ye not give credit to the 
witness which he bore of me? 

8.] Soft raiment. — Or, costly. He shows that John had no- 
thing about him whereby men's eyes might be attracted to him : 
no robes of ceremonial pretences to piety in outer body garments 
or adorn ings. 

9.] More than a prophet. — For they foretold of Christ afar off, 
but John showed that he is already come. 

10.] Before thy face. — In Malachi it is, "Before my face," 
but the sense is the same, for the Father hath appeared to the 
world in his Son's personal love developments of spirit soul mind 
birth life immortal. 

11.] A greater. — In dignity of office, and in clearness of doc- 
trine of salvation, showing with truth Christ already come, and 
preparing the world to receive him (Luke i. 15, 16). That is 
least. — That is, every spirit born new creature believer, or servant, 
of G-od, in the state of the church brought to life by the Messias, 
shall have more advantage than John the Baptist hath had, be- 
cause they shall see the mysteries of the redemption accomplished 
in my person, and shall enjoy the fruit thereof by my Spirit, which 
shall be spread abroad in greater abundance and virtue. 

12.] The kingdom. — John hath begun to stir up the desire of 
participating God's grace by the gospel, and that increaseth and 
shall daily increase more and more by virtue of my spirit, which 
shall bring forth strength of faith, and fervency of zeal in mine 
elect in great numbers, to run, as it were, thronging into my 
church, to enrich themselves with spirit life immortal ; which is 
like in this unto a city taken by assault, where everything is sub- 
ject to pillage (Isa. lx. 4, 8—11). 

13.] For all. — John's precedence above the preceding prophets 
is, that they have only foretold and described things to come. But 
he hath declared salvation present, and in him is begun the 
evangelical ministry legal. The figurative is ceased, the reality is 
now fulfilled. 

14.] If ye will. — Know that he (John) is the Elias, whose 
coming was foretold by Malachi, unless you will refuse to believe 
the truth. 

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15.] He that hath. — A frequent admonition in the gospels. 
Rev. ii. 7 ; iii. 6 : to stir up believers, who have received the gift 
of faith, which is the ear of the soul, to exercise it in apprehend- 
ing and executing those things the revelation of which was 
directed to them. 

16.] Unto children. — He hath a relation to some popular song 
used in those days, to signify that neither John's preaching of 
repentance, accompanied with great austerity of life, nor the an- 
nunciation of God's grace by Christ, confirmed by the admirable 
benignity in conforming himself to the ordinary course of man's 
life, calling and drawing unto him the most grievous sinners, 
could assauge the Jews' hardness ; their king even murdered John 
to pay the devil's daughter for dancing. 

18.] Neither eating. — Living almost of nothing, taking no care 
for his body, nor the worldly pursuits and vain pleasures of this 
life, retired from the ordinary manner of living. They say. — 
Especially scribes and Pharisees say, as all blackguards and 
slanderers and lying nicknamers and defamers say, that which 
hath not one atom of truth in it, that John hath a devil, when 
the truth was the devil was in them. The same pharisaical hypo- 
critical self-called and devil-called preachers to-day say even in 
Sunday-school papers, to destroy as far as they can the peace of 
mind of the same name, Jack for John. 

19.] Son of man. — He speaks of himself as mediator alliance 
by way of woman's seed, though spirit begotten as the son of man, 
his spirit, after the man body life blood was shed, moved about 
the dust thereof to communicate through the body with his disci- 
ples, men in human dust product bodies. Wisdom. — Soul intel- 
lect mind, quickened into immortal life wisdom by the spirit* word 
of God impregnating the soul mind spirit egg, by way of the 
will door belief of truth from God, who only hath immortality, 
and dwells in wisdom light life unapproachable by Adam's nature 
rebel lust sin seed race. Believers endowed with true spiritual 
wisdom have acknowledged, approved of, and maintained against 
these calumnies, also the celestial doctrines uniformly preached by 
John and by Christ, as also God's wisdom in appointing each of 
them their manner of living befitting their preaching. Of her chil- 
dren. — This means, that the wisdom of God in Christ hath been 
received and acknowledged by its true spirit born children of God 
in Christ. And that nicknaming bastards, who boast themselves 
to be wisdom's D.D. children, yet following pagan false men tradi- 



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tion theology creeds of men, and thereby rejecting God's statute 
laws of life and death, of body and soul, and teach that mortal 
men and women beget immortal offspring by misconstruing para- 
bles of the Jews and Gentiles. They discard God's truths in the 
Scriptures, which remain entire and perfect, which though D.D.'s 
and college bred misconstrue, still shall ever endure. 

20.] Mighty works. — Christ's high and glorious miracles (Matt, 
vii. 22.) 

21.] Chorazin. — Chorazin and Bethsaida were cities situated 
by the lake of Gennesaret. Tyre and Sidon. — Profane cities of 
the Canaanites, to whom the prophets have denounced extreme 
desolation ; they were situate by the Mediterranean Sea in Phoenicia 
(Isa. xxiii. ; Ezek. xxvi.). Repented. — Not with the internal and 
spiritual repentance, which the working of miracles cannot bring 
forth, but is an effect of God's spirit co-operating with his word; 
but only with that exterior and disciplinary kind of repentance 
which is nothing but being displeased and a forsaking of these 
great and grievous sins which do fight against the law, nature or 
civil and moral justice, and do violate human society, for which 
sins the Lord destroyed those nations. Now this was sufficient to 
condemn the Jewish insensible and inflexible rebellion. Sack- 
cloth. — These were outward signs of repentance. 

22.] But I say. — We must here imply those nations are indeed 
perished. But the lengthened punishments and sorrows that shall 
fall upon the inhabitants of Chorazin and Bethsaida shall be even 
greater than the sorrows of the inhabitants of Tyre and Sidon, 
when judgment shall be pronounced against them, and they over- 
thrown as cities. Sodom and Gomorrah were suddenly destroyed ; 
suffering was brief. 

23.] Capernaum. — This city was one of the chiefest of Galilee. 
Exalted. — By that incomparable honor and blessing of having 
been the place of abode and ordinary conversation of the world's 
Saviour. Hell. — To destruction as a city, and their bodies to the 
grave, and covered from sight, as a people on earth. With pro- 
longed suffering from sword and famine, etc., as Jerusalem. 

24.] Land of Sodom. — People living on the lands of Sodom 
will not suffer from the invading armies of Borne at Jerusalem's 
judgment day overthrown, and Capernaum, as the inhabitants of 
Capernaum will then suffer at their overthrow. Fire and brim- 
stone destroy life in a moment (Num. xvi. 21). 

25.] / thank thee. — By the glory of thy divine majesty, I ac- 



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knowledge thy sovereign power, accompanied with justice, wisdom, 
and mercy ; insomuch that thou hast not wrought upon the minds 
and hearts of wise worldly men college-bred ; nor heathen philoso- 
phers of Greece and Rome studied by the college bred, worldly- 
wise. 1 Cor. iii. 19 : For the wisdom of this world is foolishness 
with God. 1 Cor. i. 21 : The world by its wisdom of nature 
knew not God, to give them the lively light of the mysteries of 
eternal salvation ; priest who assumes to know more than God 
reveals of himself is described in Prov. xxvi. 5, 12 : a fool. 
Revealed. — The mysteries of soul spirit egg mind birth, by way 
of spirit life immortal impregnation. Matt. xiii. 37, 38 ; John 
iii. 5, 6 : Except a man (not infant) be born of water and of the 
spirit, an infant spirit, born of Christ's good seed, to whom God 
reveals immortal life wisdom, although they are mere spirit born 
babes of Christ's good immortal life seed, sown in the soul's spirit 
egg mind. What must the maturing of that babe of spirit life 
wisdom become, when the highest earth intellectual development 
of spirit soul mind life wisdom was but the intellect yolk embryo 
unimpregnated with the Spirit of God, who only hath immor- 
tality (1 Tim. vi. 16 : God only hath immortality), dwelling 
in the light which no man (nature man, unspirit born) can 
approach unto. Therefore the necessity of the mediator Christ, 
who alone could impart immortality to the soul's spirit egg 
minds. Rom. viii. 8 : So then they that are in the flesh (unspirit 
born) cannot please God. 9. : But ye (spirit born holy) are not 
in the flesh, but in the spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God 
dwell in you. Now, if any man have not the spirit of Christ, he 
is none of his. 2 Cor. v. 17 : Therefore if any man be in Christ, 
he is a new creature. Gal. vi. 7; viii. 15 : Be not deceived ; God 
is not mocked ; that is the spirit God immortal. The pagan 
wooden god ; the popish dark ages god, that would take the 
heretic that they had burned to death (though God's spirit born 
babe holy) and resurrect them to life and supernaturally miracu- 
lously keep them alive forever, and keep them in an endless hell 
of fire roasting torture, or that their god would burn himself, he 
being alone immortal life imparted to them eternally. And the 
doctor of divinity's god, who will do the same roasting torture of 
the wicked, and resurrect to immortal life rotten bodies or blood 
life egg shells. (He must be a very sickly god, if such sickly 
honored filled physicians are employed by him.) Be not deceived, 
God is not mocked. (The spirit God. sovereign supreme of the 



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universe, that I worship never was, nor will he be, ever sick ; he 
has no use for D.D.'s.) For whatsoever a man sows, that shall 
he also reap. For he that soweth to the flesh shall of the flesh 
reap corruption ; but he that soweth to the spirit shall of the 
spirit reap life everlasting. For in Christ Jesus neither circum- 
cision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. 
Priests who attempt to give a creed commandment of men-god 
doctrines are of the heathen mythology myth god order. Job ii. 12. 

20.] Even so. — I not only acknowledge this truth, but do also 
approve of it. Seemed good. — This shows that by nature we 
attain not saving faith, by our own judgment understanding or 
knowledge ; but through God's hidden and secret illumination, 
immortal life's spirit wisdom, obtained only by spirit birth of the 
soul's spirit egg mind. 

27.] Are delivered, — He means the universal kingdom which 
he hath received from God his Father in the quality of mediator. 
And especially over his church or spirit born children of grace, 
love seed, holiness unto the Lord, to accomplish their salvation 
according to the Father's everlasting decree, which also he only 
reveals by words and by works. No man hnoweth. — The mys- 
tery of the Son's person (and consequently of the Holy Trinity), as 
likewise of his incarnation, and all the properties of his office of 
mediator is only known by God, by a perfect knowledge. And 
all that man or angels know thereof is through his revelation to 
mortals by his spirit word creation power Son, to whom it only 
belongeth to reveal it ; and he only having the property of being 
the word of God (John i. 1) and revealer of his secrets (Ps. ii. 7 ; 
John i. 18.; xvi. 13: Spirit of truth, Christ, will show God's 
children things to come.) 

28.] That labor. — In your souls and consciences, by a lively 
feeling of your past ingratitude to God for all his past daily be- 
stowments for your temporal blood life necessities and infinite 
love of the dear Redeemer unrequited, and your sluggish want of 
appreciation, and practical application of the invaluable treasure 
placed within your reach, when you strive with all your heart, 
soul, might and will and mind for spirit life immortal birth ; while 
your labors heretofore have been for hard masters, your worst 
enemies : the world's approval, recreations, dances, and morbid 
fiendish appetites, perhaps of drunkenness, and other dissipations 
and hurtful lusts ; and the prince of. darkness and his hosts of 
evil seducers, all void of love, peace or rest (Isa. lv. 2). 

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29.] Take. — Yield yourselves to the Lord by obedience of faith 
to obtain immortal life, that you employ to obtain nature food for 
your transient fleeting blood life, putting off all pride and re- 
bellion. (1 Cor. vii. 22 ; ix. 21 ; 1 Pet. ii. 16.) Learn.— Imi- 
tate my example in these virtues which are fitting and necessary 
for every Christian life unto full salvation of your souls. 

30.] Is easy. — Or sweet : namely, to those that are regenerated 
spirit born of Christ's immortal life seed, whose sanctified will, 
inclined by God's Spirit, doth no more oppose Christ's law, which 
in the corrupt mortal is the only cause of the law's severity to- 
wards them, but consents unto it, and sets their whole delight 
therein (Rom. vii. 22 ; viii. 9). And this yoke of Christ's law, 
unsufferable without him (Acts xv. 10). To the intolerable 
yoke of pharisaical orders (Matt, xxiii. 4). And to the cruel 
tyrannical yoke of the devil, and other princes of this sin cursed 
world (Isa. ix. 3 ; x. 27). 



Chapter XII. 



1.] At that time. — This history is not mentioned according to 
the order of time, as appears by the other two evangelists. To 
'pluck. — According to the permission of the law. Deut. xxiii. 25 : 
When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbor, then 
thou mayst pluck the ears with thine hand ; but thou shalt not 
move a sickle unto thy neighbor's standing corn. 

2.] Is not. — The law did forbid them to dress any food upon 
the sabbath day (Exod. xvi. 23 ; xxxi. 13), which the Pharisees 
did superstitiously extend to those petty acts of plucking and 
rubbing of ears of wheat. 

3.] Have ye not. — The meaning is, the rigorous observance of 
ceremonies must yield to necessity, when there is no contempt nor 
profane disobedience, as David did without being reproved for it. 

5.] Or have ye not. — Seeing God hath not tied his ministers in 
his temple to the observance of the sabbath's rest, they do their 
ministry that day, though it be very painful. My disciples likewise 
following and serving me may very well be exempted from it, see- 
ing I am truly the Messiah and Lord of the sabbath, and as the 
service of the temple sanctifieth those. Profane. — He applies 



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himself to the capacities of the hearers, when he calls that profane 
which the priests in the exercise of their ministry did in the temple. 

6.] Is one. — I myself am the prince spirit word creation power 
son of Almighty God, and I am Lord of the sabbath and the 
temple, and the Messiah, who really and in truth am all that 
which was personified by the temple, and the service belonging to 
it, the spirit temple of saints. 

7.] If ye had. — Another reason which hath relation to the 
Pharisees' cruel hypocrisy, who through an ostentation of external 
discipline went against charity, not pitying the poor apostles' 
distress from hunger, which they should have volunteered to 
assuage in a plentiful manner. 

8.] For the. — He proclaims a reason for the apostles' inno- 
cency ; for, if there were any offense in the act, he being the judge 
of all the earth, and under the power delegated to him by his 
Father, the creator, and the real truthful owner of the earth, and 
every grain of wheat, corn, or other grain, or life fruit trees, or 
other vegetation life inanimate ; they were all his spirit life word 
products of nature elements, which in obedience to his commands 
brought them forth, and each grain of wheat his apostles had 
eaten was produced by his hand, and each grain's chit germ of life 
reproduction ad infinitum, until the close of time, was life from 
his word, without which none would have ever been in existence ; 
and the same breath power of lives chit reproduction in Adam, 
Eve, and all their sin lust race ; even they, the Pharisee fault- 
finders, were the products thereof, and were daily feeding on his 
products. Man, it was true, plowed the ground, sowed and dragged 
or cultivated in the seed, but the earth was God's, and the sun and 
the rains early and late, without which aids man's labor* would 
produce no increase or life whatever. And the sabbath days were 
his, for if his sustaining hand was withdrawn, earth and sun, and 
system of worlds, would into wild chaotic masses rush down through 
space, and crush of worlds and earthquakes, and thunders roar, 
and lightnings' flashes alone would light up the wild chaotic inane 
mass of matter void of form as ere creation's dawn (John i. 1 to 5, 
inclusive). 

9.] Synagogue. — The Jewish church, which, with all the faults 
of the Jews, were not as close shut up as ours to-day. 

10.] To heal. — The Pharisees' traditions did forbid the use of 
artificial and natural physic upon the sabbath day, unless it were 
a case of extreme necessity ; and now they apply the same to 



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miraculous cures and healings (Luke xiii. 14 ; John ix. 16). 
Sabbath. — They were extremely conscientious in observing out- 
ward ceremonies, without taking any care to preserve true piety 
(like all church and state churches of this day, 1871). With Pope 
Pio Nono, Queen Victoria, and Emperor Alexander, popes of the 
Roman Catholic Church, the Episcopal Church of England, and the 
Greek Church ; dust mortal images, that soon rot like a rotten 
potato ; pagan gods, of which their wooden gods were images. 
Accuse him,. — As a despiser and transgressor of their men tradition 
false creed laws. In like manner pagan Roman Catholic false 
doctrines of wicked men are held sacred. 

15.] Withdrew. — Not for any fear he had to die, but because 
his hour was not yet come. Them all. — That had need of being 
healed. 

18.] Judgment. — Isa. xlii. 1 : I have put my spirit upon him ; 
he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. Matt. iii. 16 : 
And John saw the spirit of God descending like a dove, and light- 
ing upon Jesus. 

19.] Not strive. — He shall not seek after worldly glory, where- 
upon arise great strifes among men ; he shall proceed in all hu- 
mility in himself and mildness towards others. 

20.] Reed. — That is, he will support the weak. Smoking. — 
Flax wherein some fire is fallen. Till he send. — Till he be entered 
into possession and exercise of his everlasting kingdom ; from 
thence he will subdue all his foes ; unto victory, everlasting death, 
annihilation. 

21.] His name. — The name of the spirit prince Son of Almighty 
God, Jesus Christ ; in his name the Gentiles trust, but the Jews 
would £iot trust in Christ Jesus, earth's spirit king of the Jews 
and Gentiles, spirit born of God, his Father's immortal spirit 
life seed in him. The Masonic fraternity, that claim to have 
originated with the Jews in building Solomon's temple, and saved 
many Jewish lives during the horrid murders of the Roman 
Catholic popery dominancy of the dark ages, began in the year 
1000, in York, England, by practical masons; also reject Christ 
Jesus, unless they were, or become, spirit born of his immortal 
love of life spirit seed ; then they seldom, if ever, after a truthful 
conversion to spiritual life, attend the lodges ; the brotherly kind- 
ness pledged by passwords, and grips of the hand, etc., are all 
moral and Scriptural ; but a vile politician or speculator will use 
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to the ruin of the government or state, and vile Masons will, by 
way of the honest Mason's confidence in his solemn pledges, bor- 
row money, and make utterly false pretences, and rob a Christian 
brother in the same way that a vile hypocritical Judas church 
member will defraud the real Christian brother ; and the robber 
of the innocent, like Cain, claim not to be their brother's keeper, 
and the wicked defrauder will ever slander and nickname the 
person they rob. 

22.] Mind. — Blinded by the devil in mortal sight", as well as 
spiritual, as are the earth's masses. 

23.] The son. — The son, the Christ, namely, the promised 
Messiah, by way of woman's seed from David's offspring, for Jew 
and Gentile were united in him, by way of Boaz, a Jew, and Ruth, 
a Gentile. 

24.] Beelzebub. — The nickname Beelzebub. The unpardonable 
sin nicknamers, Matt. xii. 31, 32, the tare seed children of the 
devil, gave the heir of immortal life, Jesus Christ, the prince 
spirit word Son of God. The same children of the devil's tare 
seed of evil call Jesus a bastard ; others blubber Jack, for the 
name of the baptizer to repentance ; and Bob, or Boberts & Co. 
for the honorable firm of Roberts & Co. ; and Robert's son, Bob- 
ertson, etc. : clearly showing the effervescence of unclean spirit 
nickname devils in their evil nature. 

25.] Jesus knew. — Their nickname Beelzebub thoughts, that 
would gratify evil nature. 

26.] If Satan. — The ground of this reason is, because the Lord 
did drive nicknaming devils out of men's souls by his saving love 
doctrines that drove out hatred and envy, as well as out of their 
hearts and bodies, by his mighty spirit truth words. Wherefore 
none but evil ones could suspect that there was any collusion with 
the evil spirit, as impostors oftentimes have ; at whose instance the 
devil comes out of a body to gain many men's souls by seduction, 
superstition, false men tradition doctrines, and unclean spirit mani- 
festations through unclean spirit mediums : in mockery of Christ 
the mediator between the spirit God love, and spirit love begotten 
children of God on earth ; and of the coming spiritual outpourings 
of God's truth manifestations as in these Day Thoughts, given I 
humbly trust and believe through me a worm, unto the churches 
on earth (Job xxv. 6 ; Isa. xli. 14). 

27.] If I. — You show your malice in judging evil of me, be- 
cause you have exorcists of your own nation, which make profes- 



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sion of driving out devils out of men (Acts xix. 13), and do not 
condemn them, though you have no more reason to mistrust my 
actions than theirs ; it is clear then that because I am good, and 
ye are evil, I am love, and ye are hatred ; out of kindness I cast 
out soul destroying devils, out of your hearts and souls unclean 
devil malice evil nature. You nickname me Beelzebub, instead 
of calling me Lord, such as you will continue to call opprobrious 
names to serve your father the devil. It is uncertain whether 
Jewish exorcists did operate by any gift of God and calling upon 
his name, or by some unlawful art. Christ does not approve or 
disprove ; but is content with confuting his nicknaming adver- 
saries by the example of these. Judges. — That is, their acts shall 
condemn you. Nicknamers love their devil evil nature. 

28.] But if I. — You do plainly see that I dispossess the devil 
of the tyranny which he hath usurped over souls, hearts, and 
bodies ; acknowledge that I am that great and only king of the 
church, who alone have power to subdue mine enemy, though I 
spare his life until his probation ends, which is the close of time ; 
and Satan and his hosts are the unclean spirit tare weeds, that like 
nature weed products are to try the patience of, and make all who 
would live in heaven strive with industry to store immortal life 
food, with the same energies that they lay up earth food stores for 
their brief blood life ; such I take as prey from Satan, which 
otherwise, and to every other man, would be impossible. 

29.] Or else. — If the kingdom of Glod were not come, the 
devil could not be overcome, and consequently could not be spoiled. 
Enter. — Isa. xlix. 25 : The prey of the terrible shall be delivered. 

30.] He that. — Here Christ begins another discourse, the mean- 
ing is, All those not allied to me, as their spiritual new creature 
spirit born of Grod's love life immortal in me are mine enemies ; 
there is no division between these two ways ; one by way of me, 
the narrow spirit life immortal way leads safely to heaven ; the 
other broad way of death inevitable, of soul and body, which all 
Satan's tare seed children, and unspirit born Adamic sin lust seed 
travel in to inevitable destruction unless they 'bout face, forward 
march, double quick into freedom's lighted spirit life eternal way 
of salvation by Christ Jesus, the only bearer of conditional life 
pardon to earth's rebels sentenced to death. Gathereth not. — He 
that teacheth any other doctrine than the doctrines of truth as 
revealed in the Scriptures, doth spoil and undo it as far as in him 
lieth ; or, they that seek salvation anywhere but in me shall lose 



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all life in inane chaotic death night e'ernal, that hath no life 
rays. 

31.] Wherefore. — Because of this contrariety between you and 
mc, you may fall in an extreme degree which is irremissible ; I 
will give you notice of the property and quality of this sin, that 
you may take heed of it. Forgiven. — May be pardoned by true 
conversion in faith and repentance, by way of spirit birth new 
creature life immortal. Against the. — Against this action and 
proper operation, which is to enlighten inwardly, and to seal God's 
truth within the heart, the blood life chit giving it some relish 
and feeling of God's grace, and exciting some spiritual motion in 
it (1 Cor. xii. 3 ; Heb. vi. 4 ; x. 29). Shall not. — The cause 
whereof is in God's will, who hath not appointed two regenera- 
tions, or spiritual resurrections. He hath not promised to begin 
again anew the work of his grace, which was brought so far as 
the gift of the spirit life by way of Christ Jesus, his spirit word 
and only spirit begotten Son : when it is once destroyed by a gen- 
eral apostasy, and by the total loss of this spirit life gift, and ex- 
tinction of this light (Isa. xi. 14 ; v. 24 ; Dan. xii. 2). Ezek. 
xviii. 4, 20, 24 : In his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he 
die. 27 : And when the wicked man turneth away from his 
wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is law- 
ful and right, he shall save his soul alive. 

32.] Speaketh. — Shall out of ignorance, without illumination of 
the Spirit of God, have thought or uttered blasphemy against 
Christ (1 Cor. xii. 3 ; 1 Tim. i. 13). Against the Son. — Not only 
against his person and his offices, but chiefly against that which is 
his proper operation, namely, against his word, which he doth out- 
wardly reveal and declare, as he himself being the spirit word 
power of creation, and wisdom of God. But whosoever. — High- 
est ecclesiastical office-holder, preacher or lay member of the 
church, or outside of the church sinner, that hath been driven by 
the extreme wickedness and impiety of his heart, or hers, as to 
utter nickname words of blasphemy, as calling the spirit word of 
God power in Christ Jesus, Beelzebub, the power of devils ; 
w T hich is a blasphemous outrage against God and his truth, of 
which he hath had the seal of persuasion and knowledge in his 
heart by God's spirit, which is the chief sin of the devil and the 
damned, and the very height of the wicked's malice, and showeth 
forth like mean malice in calling persons or places by opprobrious 
nicknames. Editors who publish nicknames should be severely 



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punished by earthly tribunals as an assault. Neither in this world. 
— Never, eternally, as St. Mark saith, iii. 29. Or, neither in 
this world by the effectual application of the ministry of the gos- 
pel, by the Holy Ghost, in finding the peace and joy of conscience; 
nor in the world to come, the pure holy spirit life eternal. Acts iii. 
19 ; 1 Thess. iii. 13 : To the end that he may establish your hearts 
unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming 
of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints, shows they are all 
then resurrected and come from heaven's paradise with their Lord, 
to witness the last death of all the unholy (Kev. xx. 11). 

33.] 3Iake the. — Put the case, or grant that the tree is good or 
bad, the fruits will be like it, therefore seeing you are perverse, 
you can neither judge nor speak but perversely of me and of my 
works ; such will oppose no doubt God's truths in these day thoughts 
of light. 

34.] Speak good. — As if he should have said, Your nickname 
Beelzebub words may well show what you are. Gen. iii. 4 : And 
the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die. All 
who preach that the wicked are immortal in hell fire torture, or in 
any other place with life existence, preach the same doctrine that 
the devil in the serpent preached to Eve, and flatly contradict God. 
Gen. ii. 16: The Lord God said, 17: Thou shalt surely die. 
7 : And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground. 
Gen. iii. 19 : In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till 
thou (not part of thou) return unto the ground ; for out of it 
thou wast taken ; for dust thou art (not part and balance immortal 
indissoluble, indestructible), and unto dust shalt thou return. 
Eccles. xii. 7 ; Matt. iii. 7 ; xxiii. 33 ; Luke iii. 7 : generation 
of vipers, not immortals. 1 Tim. vi. 16 : God only hath immor- 
tality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto. 
2 Tim. i. 10 : But is now made manifest by the appearing of our 
Saviour, Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death in souls of be- 
lievers (of all Adam's race, they may by spirit birth, of Christ's 
spirit life immortal, thereby in new spirit creature life live), and 
brought (spirit) life and immortality to light through the gospel. 
John v. 40 : And ye will not come to me that ye might have life. 

35.] A good, man. — Hath in store only good things, love, good- 
ness, mercy and truth, he is a gentleman, she is a lady, they call 
persons or places by their right names, they speak truthfully when 
they accuse the wicked of wrong doing. They try to persuade 
the drunkard to save his temporal life and respectability and 



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reason ; and try to persuade all to do right, seek God through 
Christ for a clean heart, and a right spirit birth spirit of love, truth, 
goodness and mercy, that thinks not evil but good thoughts. 
And an evil man. — Thinks evil thoughts continually ; their minds 
are stored with the spirit of their viper spirit tare seed father the 
devil. They make all around them unhappy by ungentlemauly or 
unladylike language ; they prefer to call persons or places by a 
mean opprobrious nickname. They slander the good, and circu- 
late utterly false stories against the righteous, as they did against 
Jesus and his disciples. 

30.] Idle word. — Nicknames, vain and unprofitable words, 
which are of no sense nor use, falsehoods, falsely speaking evil of 
others by falsely accusing them of wrong that they never did ; 
to cover the way of themselves, the wrong doers, swearers, story 
tellers of unclean lust affinity, any words spoken untruthful, and 
any words spoken not for the glory of God, nor for the good of 
one's neighbors; how much more then of blasphemous words shall 
they give account to the Judge of all the earth, who is holy. 

37.] By thy. — This seems to be similar to judgments in which 
the accused is cleared or condemned, according to the answers 
and confessions. But the Lord extends it to a more general sense ; 
namely that in God's judgment mortals shall be judged wholly by 
their words, as the nearest and most ordinary effects and signs of 
what is in their hearts or souls mind thoughts, desires and con- 
summations, or was in their hearts when alive on earth, in dust 
body, that like earth's fruit soon rots and returns to earth as it 
was before life animation. The words each one of all Adam's race 
have uttered are recorded in each one's own pass-book memory, 
and in the recording angel's spirit telegram book of remembrance. 
Mai. iii. 16 : Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to 
another ; and the Lord hearkened and heard, and a book of remem- 
brance was written before him, for them that feared the Lord and 
that thought upon his name (not nickname, Beelzebub). 17 : And 
they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts. The words are re- 
membered, and the secret prayer thoughts. But their body blood 
or heart life ceases forever when it dies and rots ; no life will ever 
again pulsate their corruption dust bodies (1 Cor. xv. 44, 50). 

38.] We would see. — A demand of curiosity, which church and 

state officials ever exact of God's spirit born children ; for their 

men manufactured D.D. and professor intellect college worldly 

wisdom medicine, never cured a sin sick Adamic soul or heart ; 

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much less are they capable of doctoring any divinity gods ; all the 
gods they are competent to doctor are pagan like themselves, 
material gods, and resurrection of rotten apples, and rotten po- 
tatoes, and rotten human bodies made of them, and grass products, 
instead of a spirit God, spirit born of spirit, new creatures of 
spirit seed, of the spirit immortal Father of spirits, not rotten 
bodies. 

39.] Adulterous. — Disloyal in God's service, Isa. lvii. 3 : or a 
bastard and degenerate generation. But the sign. — Instead of the 
miracle which you desire, I will give you instruction by the figure of 
Jonah. For as he, after he had been three days in the fish's belly, 
which fish (Jonah i. 17) was made by the Lord expressly for the pur- 
pose (not a whale, with its nets of bone, as infidels assert falsely, to 
limit God's power to prepare a fish with sufficient capacity to swallow 
Jonah, shows the impudent assurances of Satan's tare weeds), came 
out to preach the will of God to the Ninevites (save that Jonah 
forgot or had not studied his Bible, like many modern preachers, 
who study false theology instead of the Scriptures. Jer. xviii. 7, 8 : 
If that nation against whom I have pronounced turn from their 
evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them), so 
three days after I have given my woman's seed spirit begotten holy 
blood life a sacrifice for the sins of holy spirit born of my spirit 
seed holy believers, I will with my spirit life power take the flesh 
body void of blood life from the tomb and speak through it in com- 
munication with my disciples. And by my resurrection (Rom. i. 
4) I will convince them of the truth of my person and word. 
Luke xxiv. 39 : A spirit hath not flesh and bones (not blood), as 
you see me have. 

40.] Three days. — A common expression then, as now ; three 
days' work may be limited to eight hours out of the twenty-four, 
as now is the law of some States ; but the resurrection of the flesh 
and bones body of Jesus (by Christ's spirit word Son of God power, 
with which there was a unity of love the same as with his saints) 
was on the third day after the crucifixion ; the labor of conquering 
death was finished early on the morning of the third day, now kept 
as our sabbath, remembrance of the day our Lord triumphed over 
the devil and death (Heb. ii. 14). In the heart. — Viz., within an 
earth heart rock ; a tomb hewn in a rock ; a vault. 

41.] Shall [or does'] condemn it. — They repented in Nineveh of 
their evil deeds at Jonah's preaching, and their nation was spared, 
according to God's law (Jer. xviii. 8). The spirit begotten Son 



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of God preached to the Jewish nation, as did also his apostles ; 
but the Jews repented not, and their national judgment day came, 
and they were swept by the Roman soldiers from their promised 
land, by their breach of the conditions of the solemn contract made 
by their fathers ; they were persecuted unto death for centuries, 
and but a few years since they were sorely taxed, persecuted, and 
plundered, and excluded from cities in some countries. How much 
more tolerable the state of the inhabitants of Nineveh ! 

42.] Condemn it. — This is to be understood as rather referring 
to the matter of the ruin of the Jewish nation, as occupiers of the 
inheritance of their fathers, than to the person of the visiting 
Southern queen of Solomon's glory. 

43.] When the. — After Christ had confuted his malignant ad- 
versaries upon the occasion of the possessed man's deliverance, he 
now instructs the people, wishing them to beware that the unclean 
spirit is the devil, or his tare seed child, and that the soul's spirit 
mind egg or eggs are susceptible of impregnation by the unclean spirit 
life of the devil. Matt. xiii. 38 : The tares are the children of 
the wicked one. 39 : The enemy that sowed them is the devil. 
40 : As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire, so 
shall it be in the end of this world ; clearly showing that all the 
tare seed children of the devil in wicked mortals are Satan's unclean 
spirit children, that live as long as the devil their father does, viz., 
to the end of time as aforestated, the end of the world ; when they 
are to be consumed in a moment, by Christ's word as judge (Heb. 
ii. 14). The unclean spirits cast out of Mary Magdalene, and out 
of the men in the tombs, and others, show that the unclean spirits 
seek quarters together in some congenial human soul, viz., drunkard's 
unclean spirit, at his blood life body death, seeks, without finding 
any rest, a drunkard's living blood life body, and urges the poor 
drunkards to drink, to satiate their thirst, but the unclean spirit's 
thirst, and unrest remains unsatisfied ; they find no rest. Spirit 
mediums keep unclean spirits busy at the present day ; no rest will 
they have until infinite mercy of God the Holy Ghost withdraws 
its staying power to God's flaming sword of justice fire ; then as 
infinite love the Lord Jesus Christ leaves the mediatorial seat at 
the right hand of his Father, and is crowned judge by his Father, 
and takes his seat on his great white throne in the heavens above, 
surrounded by his saints and angels who accompany him (Rev. xx. 

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to the stronger (the devil's tare seed child that had left its dead 
flesh lust body to return to its earthly elements in the earth 
grave, hell covered from mortal vision, dictionary) the unclean 
spirit had yielded or fled from the soul of the man, woman, or 
child described, which had quite likely previous to its departure 
called Jesus Beelzebub, for unclean spirit devils in mortals call 
nicknames opprobrious, applying them to persons and places where 
children of Grod reside ; it gratifies and scratches their evil nature 
or unclean spirit devil within. Swept. — Figurative terms, as 
much as to say made ready to receive him, all virtues which are 
hindrances and odious to the devil being rooted out of it, and vices 
established and placed there instead of them, makes a demon gar- 
nish for evil unclean spirits' abodes. 

45.] Seven. — Viz., a great number, many unclean spirits often 
possessing one body (Mark v. 9 ; xvi. 9). Enter- in. — Christ 
shows by this similitude how fierce and eager Satan is to overcome 
again any one who by grace hath been delivered out of his bonds ; 
the drunkard is tempted, when reformed, to return again to his 
poison drink, to drown his little reason at last ; the nicknamer the 
devil, and his angels who assume the appearance of angels of light 
when dubbed D.D., and Rev., and editor, and apostle, in the case 
of Judas the betrayer, and tare seed children of the devil, who are 
devils in human form on earth, possessed with unclean spirits that 
blaspheme Grod's name, nickname his Son Beelzebub, and Grod's 
children by opprobrious names, liars, thieves, murderers of soul 
and body when they can, and after body death they as unclean 
spirits or devils seek rest and find none. (43.) And they deprive 
all on earth with life of peace, when they can, by calling others 
nicknames, nicknaming their places of residence, slanders, etc. 

46.] His brethren. — According to some they were his flesh 
woman's seed blood life kindred (Matt. xiii. 55; Mark vi. 3; 
John ii. 12 ; vii. 3 ; Acts i. 14 ; 1 Cor. ix. 5 ; Gal. i. 19). 

47.] Thy mother. — Ps. Ii. 5 : Behold I was shapen in iniquity, 
and in sin did my mother conceive me. Gren. iii. 19 : Dust thou 
art, and unto dust shalt thou return. 15 : It shall bruise thy 
head, her seed, woman's nature seed egg, that at puberty, until 
forty-five years of age, when healthy monthly appears, and if not 
quickened with male milt life seed, soon passes off as excrements, 
wholly void of any life seed whatever, of such an egg quickened 
to life by the spirit promise word of Grod uttered in Eden ; when 
body blood life death was pronounced by the judge of all the 



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earth on Adam and Eve, our first earthly nature parents. Mary, 
the nature mother of the woman's seed egg blood life nature of the 
body of Jesus, was herself under the sentence of death, and her 
only hope of salvation was by way of the Lord Jesus Christ, not 
as her son, but by way of God's spirit word promise spirit life im- 
mortal seed life, that alone lived after nature's blood life body was 
dead and dissolved into nature gases, and refuse dust that will 
consume into ashes and fall with the earth's conflagration through 
lighted space into inane outer darkness bottomless pit chaos. That 
blood life body of the Virgin Mary, like Eve in Eden, and all her 
race, was, and will be reduced to dust ; such is God's sentence 
irrevocable. Gen. iii. 19 :• Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt 
thou return ; and 17 : Cursed is the ground for thy sake, in sor- 
row shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life. How can there 
possibly be a lengthening out of human blood life when their 
bodies are to partake of nature food produced from the earth by 
body labor ? All the days of thy life means all body life ends 
with blood life death. Then the Virgin Mary had nothing im- 
mortal by nature blood life birth of immortality over any other 
virtuous female of all Adam and Eve's sin lust begotten race. The 
Saviour then knowing all this, and that spirit life immortal which 
alone was in him from Jehovah God, Almighty Sovereign Supreme 
of the universe of lighted boundless space. 1 Tim. vi. 16 : God 
only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can 
approach unto ; whom no man hath seen nor can see. From 
whence then do the popish cardinals, bishops, and preachers of 
the llomish Church and their pope obtain their blasphemous false 
assertion that the Virgin Mary was the mother of God ? She is a 
far superior mother to the popish mother, church and state, or 
the mother of antichrist popes, and their titled church and state 
nobility that swears allegiance to the beast (Rev. xiii. 15, 16, 17, 
18), the Latin-tongued serpent. John iii. 6 : That which is born 
of the flesh is flesh ; and that which is born of the spirit is spirit. 
The Virgin Mary was a descendant of Boaz, a Jew, and Ruth, a 
Gentile ; and by way of the line of David, who admits himself be- 
gotten in iniquity and conceived in sin (Ps. li. 5), therefore clearly 
demonstrating that Matthat was the father of the Virgin Mary 
(Luke iii. 24). And that Mary being herself born of flesh was 
but flesh with blood life, sentenced to death, at her brief probation 
on earth close. John ii. 3 : The mother of Jesus saith unto him, 
They have no wine. 4 : Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have 

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I to do with thee ? (It was the spirit word Son of God that thus 
spoke, by which power alliance to God alone miracles could be 
performed, and the separation of spirit from matter flesh life of 
blood was not yet come.) John iii. 6 : That which is born of the 
spirit (not of flesh or body, nature blood life birth) is spirit. 
John iv. 24 : God is a Spirit, John iii. 5 : Jesus said, Except a 
man be born of water and of the spirit, he cannot enter into the 
kingdom of God. John xi. 25 : Jesus said unto her, I am the 
resurrection and the life ; he that believeth in me, though he were 
(dead spiritually in trespasses and sins) dead, yet shall he live. 
26 : And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. 
John vi. 63 : It is the spirit that quickeneth, the flesh profiteth 
nothing. The words that I speak unto you they are spirit, and 
they are life. 68 : Thou hast the words of eternal life. The flesh 
profiteth nothing. Therefore the spirit word Son of God was in 
no wise benefited by the woman's seed spirit begotten egg flesh 
body, it profited him nothing, for he could have made innumerable 
millions of bodies in human form without Mary or any other 
mortal aid, as he had done when he made Adam and Eve, and 
he likewise spake through a body he made in human form, to 
Moses, Abraham, Gideon, Aaron, and others previous to the 
spirit begotten sacrifice, woman's seed body, by way of which 
Mary and all Adam's race that believed on or in Christ Jesus, with 
all their heart, soul, mind, and blood life strength, were promised 
immortal spirit new creature life. 2 Cor. v. 17 ; Gal. vi. 7, 8, 
15 : Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. Be 
not deceived, God is not mocked (with dead rotten body resurrec- 
tions nor eternal hellfire tortures). For whatsoever a man soweth, 
that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of 
the flesh reap corruption ; but he that soweth to the spirit shall 
of the spirit reap life everlasting. For in Christ Jesus neither 
circumcision availeth anything, nor un circumcision, but a new 
creature. Rom. viii. 9 : But ye are not in the flesh, but in the 
spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any 
man have not the spirit of Christ, he is none of his. 1 Cor. xv. 
23 : Christ the first fruits, afterwards they that are Christ's at 
liis coming, at blood life's probation close. 37 : Thou sowest 
not that body that shall be. 44 : It is sown a natural body ; it is 
raised a spiritual body. 50 : Flesh and blood cannot inherit the 
kingdom of God ; neither doth corruption (rotten bodies) inherit 
incorruption. Heb. ii. 14: Forasmuch then as the children 



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(spirit born of Christ's spirit love seed) are (not will be) partakers 
of flesh and blood ; Christ Jesus also himself likewise took part 
(woman's seed, not man's) of the same, that through death he 
might destroy him that had the power of death, that is the devil. 
Exod. xx. 12 : Honor thy father and thy mother. Christ's spirit 
father and mother was God (Heb. xii. 9). 

48.] Who is. — In mine office, and order of spiritual life, I ac- 
knowledge no kindred in the flesh, but hold to be my brethren 
and allies in spirit only, and equally, all true believers who are 
God's spiritual children, adopted and regenerated by him, by way 
of the soul's spirit egg mind new creature spirit life being ; and 
who show the true proofs thereof by their works. Christ speaks 
not here by way of contempt, but truthfully to illustrate the 
nothingness of flesh blood life void of spirit love life immortal. 
Blood life is under the sentence of death, and at longest but a 
compound dream, mostly unpleasant, as a panoramic vision of 
good and evil. Christ preferred infinitely the spiritual before the 
carnal parentage, — his spirit Father, the supreme sovereign of the 
universe, to poor transitory blood life affinities that was accursed 
for rebellion against God, and sentenced to death (Gen. iii. 19). 

49.] My mother and my brethren. — Clearly showing the nothing- 
ness of nature birth, if the soul spirit egg mind is unimpregnated 
with immortal life from the spirit God sovereign of the universe ; 
who only hath immortality, and is the Father, and hath no need 
of the aid of a mother in begetting immortal spirit beings. Heb. 
xii. 9 : We have had fathers of our flesh, which corrected us ; 
and we gave them reverence. Shall we not much rather be in 
subjection unto the Father of Spirits and live? 1 John v. 1: 
Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God ; and 
every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten 
of him. 4 : Whosoever is born of God overcometh the world ; 
and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith 
(faith is trusting in and wholly relying upon God in Christ with- 
out a sinful doubt). 12 : He that hath the Son hath life ; and 
he that hath not the Son hath not life. Rom. viii. 9 : If any 
man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. Thus it is 
clearly stated Christ sows his spirit love life immortal seed, brought 
by him to earth from his spirit Father, in the intellectual soul 
spirit egg mind, through the heart's blood life will door to the 
soul mind ; thereby they are born of God, without a nature or 
spiritual mother. The soul is the spirit mother. Gal. iii. 28: 



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There is neither male nor female ; for ye are all one in Christ 
Jesus. There are no such things as female nor male sex among 
spirit beings, the soul mind embryo thoughts are without sex 
qualities, as hath animal life, and another proof positive that no 
sex bodies are ever raised from their rottenness or refuse dust 
and ashes of sin lust begotten nature life. 

50.] Whosoever. — Showing clearly that God is not a respecter 
of kings or popish triplicate crowns ; but whoever humble them- 
selves as a little child and no others, and that fear to disobey 
God's commands clearly stated in statute laws by his dearly be- 
loved spirit word spirit creation power spirit son, who veiled a por- 
tion of his infinite spirit love life immortal from his Father in his 
promise word in Eden that woman's seed should bruise the ser- 
pent's unclean spirit, that seduced Eve to disobey God's imperative 
Eden law, all those begotten truthfully of God in Christ seek 
not to be popes or titled lords of God's heritage, but to be servants 
of all, and like his disciples, chosen by the Lord, not from the 
worldly wise college-bred, but illiterate fishermen. Like Gideon's 
army, they must be small, like myself in worldly wisdom, that all 
the glory of intellectual development from the Lord of himself, 
through me a worm, may truthfully appear as the Lord's not my 
wisdom. Will of my Father. — The dear Redeemer gave all the 
glory to his beloved Father, the source of his spirit life immor- 
tality and wisdom, and power infinite and alone infallible, of ail 
who ever lived on earth. All spirit born of God in Christ, the 
same is my mother, sister, and brother ; there is no male or female 
spirit with immortal life, for all partake of God's immortality and 
are as drops of water or ten drops of water to eternal lighted space 
were it water, in resemblance of God or as one ray of light's point, 
or ten, to God the boundless light of lighted space. The Virgin 
Mary could not obtain spirit soul mind birth by any other than 
God in Christ the Holy Ghost, and he in his love spirit life 
Father, one in love. Earth life all dies, and remains dead. All 
Adam's race is sentenced to death. Christ is the life (not Adam's 
breath of God) and the resurrection of all soul minds begotten 
and born of God (John xi. 25, 26 ; 1 John v. 18). 



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Chapter XIII. 



1.] The house. — The house where he had taught the afore- 
mentioned things. 

2.] Were gathered. — Desire to hear the doctrines of the gospel 
invited them to come to Jesus, although not at all with the same 
affection. 

3.] In parables. — This was a kind of teaching used by mytho- 
logy poets, and then common among the Jews, and followed by our 
Saviour as very useful to make the truth known to their ignorant 
minds steeped in heathen parabolic myths, endless hell fires, and 
Egyptian mummy body resurrections. Malachi, the last prophet, 
died four hundred years previous, and to cause the apprehension 
to enter into the spirit soul mind intellect of the hearers, by a well 
appropriated similitude of some framed narration ; wherein a par- 
able differeth from an allegory, which takes the figure of a true 
history ; but in various senses, to represent moral or spiritual 
things and form an enigma which hath more obscurity and brevity 
than a parable, and from a plain similitude inserted in the natural 
and proper extent of the discourse ; and is therefore clear and plain 
to be understood by those who desire to learn of the Lord instead 
of perverting it to contradict God's plain infallible statute laws, 
as men tradition false creeds often do. Many of the parables used 
by our Lord were warnings and rebukes to the Jews. Without 
a parable he did not speak to them. 

4.] Way side. — Gospel seed sowed by travelers, sectarians, and 
infidels with false ideas, or wilful lies, lead the poor to drop from 
their soul mind's truth. 

5.] Stony places. — The man or others of his family swears, 
drinks intoxicating liquors that drown reason, or they have been 
brought up by infidel parents. 

6.] Scorched. — It is spoiled by too much heat, not having 
soothing love. Anger consumes love seed. 

7.] Thorns. — Lusts of sexes, vicious appetites, infidelity, 
worldly aspirations, pride, etc. 

8.] Good ground. — Repentant, weeping, humble, childlike be- 
lievers of God's truths, and whose hearts souls will mind and 
strength are in earnest for immortal life, and striving to obtain 
God's forgiveness for the past, love for the present and evermore, 



202 MATTHEW XIII. 

and obedience, love, gratitude and adoration to Cod ; and joining 
Christ's army of light, and putting blood life at stake in warring 
against the devil's army of darkness, like a good faithful war 
soldier at his post. Some a hundredfold. — According to their 
faith and labors. . Compared to wheat. One grain of wheat in 
good ground and proper climate, in a good season, produces thirty 
grains of wheat in each wheat head. Sometimes it sends up two 
stalks ; sixty grains are then produced ; and sometimes three stalks, 
and a hundred grains of wheat. Thus the spirit born soul mind 
receives of the spirit of Christ in greater or less quantities, accord- 
ing to their improvement of their intellect spirit talents and faith. 

9.] Who hath ears. — Spiritual intellectual discernment, en- 
lightened by the Holy Grliost, faith ears of the soul. 

10.] Unto them. — Contrary to the clear and familiar way which 
thou usest towards us. 

11.] Because. — Only spirit born new creatures can receive and 
discern spiritual truths. 

12.] Whosoever. — In spiritual things Cod gives the external 
means and directions of his word to those who aspire for heavenly 
spiritual life immortal to guide them to seek the grace proclama- 
tion salvation by compliance with its requisitions, as all offers of 
salvation are conditional with obedience to the directions and com- 
mands of the only Mediator and commander-in-chief of time's 
army of light truth immortal life that warreth against the army 
of falsehood darkness and death ; that they may, after seeking for 
love life, in the gospel truth spirit life promise words of Cod in 
Christ the spirit tree of life impregnating intellect fruit medi- 
ator, who gives spiritual peace love nourishment to all who have 
opened their soul's will door into the spirit egg mind belief of 
God's spirit word promise conditional with compliance to truthful 
directions, which narrow way alone leads to immortal spirit life, 
by way of spirit soul mind intellectual spirit birth of Christ's 
quickening spirit seed of immortal spirit life ; but from them that 
have not the inward gift of the spirit of Christ in the soul womb 
spirit intellect egg, he taketh away even the external light of his 
word, and his other gifts. That he hath. — St. Luke saith, 
That which he seemeth to have ; for none can truly say, he indeed 
hath spiritual gifts, unless they have the spirit of Christ. Rom. 
viii. 9 : If any man have not the spirit of Christ, he is none of 
his, unless they be rooted in Christ by faith love and spirit new 
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13.] Parables. — Parables are not God's fixed plain statute 
laws. Isa. xxxv. 8 : The wayfaring men, though fools, shall not 
err therein ; and no spirit born holy mortal can mistake the narrow 
way of holiness, truth, and love, paved with God's statute laws of 
truth ; for the broad way of parabolic myths, falsely construed 
(the plain statute laws of God to mortals is life, and death ; 
Gen. iii. 19 ; Ezek. xviii. 4, 20, 24, 27) into an endless hell 
torture death, ever dying and never dead, nor into rotten body 
resurrections (Luke xx. 38 ; Rom. vi. 2, 3). 

14.] Esaias. — Isa. vi. 9 : Hear ye indeed, but understand not 
(as if I should lecture about arithmetical problems to unlearned 
people that had not learned figures). And see ye indeed, but 
perceive not ; the partakers of the expanded wheat life bodies, in 
their daily nature bread food, seldom, if ever, any of the millions 
of partakers daily of bread, think or comprehend that all the grain 
life expansion is the expansion of God's spirit life breath, in his 
spirit life power word. Gen. i. 11 : And God said, Let the earth; 
the earth of itself could do nothing of the kind ; but let God's life 
infinite in every breath ray expanding, ad infinitum, until the life 
ray returned to God, its immortal life fountain, the spirit returns 
to God (Eccles. xii. 7). Boundless upper seventh heavens ea, the 
same as the waterdrops of rain unused return by way of rills, 
brooks, creeks, and rivers, back to the ocean fountain from whence 
in misty atoms it was breathed forth into the air and wafted by 
mercy clouds grace breath winds to water the dust earth with life 
sustaining food, for animate with spirit expansion of God's breath life 
in Adam and Eve ; as in like manner in all animate life animals, or 
animate and inanimate life. Job xii. 10 : In God's hand is the soul 
of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind : as the rain- 
water unused returns to its original fountain, and the sun's light 
is withdrawn at night from the earth ; in like manner God's spirit 
life breath returns to God that gave it. Eccles. xii. 7 : Then shall 
the dust (of mortal bodies at blood life death) return to the earth as 
it was (previous to its vegetation life formation ; gases, dust, and 
other elements of nature). And the spirit shall all return unto 
God who gave it. Gal. vi. 7, 8, 15 : He that soweth to the spirit 
(that returns to God the fountain of all life at body death) shall 
of the spirit reap life everlasting. 

15.] For this people 's. — What the prophet ascribes to the secret 
counsel of God, Matthew doth to the stubbornness of the people, 
for the one cannot be separated from the other. 



204 MATTHEW XIII. 

16.] For they see. — The glory light truth immortal of the Son 
of God, knowing by way of spirit birth of his spirit love seed, that 
he was their Saviour. 

17.] Which ye see. — The fulfilling of these things which they 
had prophesied. 

18.] Sower. — One that removes grain from the garner, and 
sows it on prepared ground. When the ground is covered by 
native forest trees, no seed, good or bad, can be cultivated, the 
animate life seed remaining in the garner unsown, like inanimate 
life nature seed produces no life or body increase ; thus the female 
eggs of nature are utterly void of all life, as was the earth, until 
God's word impregnated the earth with all the varied vegetation, 
or inanimate life seed. Thus Adam received from God the quick- 
ening life milt. Gen. ii. 7 : And breathed into his nostrils the 
breath of life. (In the original Hebrew it is plural, lives, not 
singular, life, as translated erroneously.) And without the lives 
male milt quickening no female egg would ever produce one body 
in any form, mortal, beast, bird, or fish. Thus where the female 
eggs are laid we can readily trace the truth of reproduction by re- 
moving the male fowl. Eggs will be laid by the female, but no 
life whatever can be obtained therefrom ; break the shell after the 
hen hath set on them three weeks, and a resurrection of rotten- 
ness is all that escapes. Thus the intellectual soul spirit egg mind, 
unquickened by Christ's spirit love grace of God immortal spirit 
life milt, the she (Ps. xxxiv. 2 : My soul shall make her boast 
in the Lord) soul spirit egg mind intellect, will produce nothing 
but rottenness. Dan. xii. 2 : And many of them that sleep in 
the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and 
some to a resurrection of rottenness (in the original Hebrew, but 
erroneously illustrated by the words " shame" and " everlasting 
contempt." Isa. v. 24 : Their root shall be as rottenness). The 
tare seed of the devil. Matt. xiii. 38, 39, 40 : As, therefore, the 
tares are gathered and burned in the fire, so shall it be in the end 
of this world. 

19.] The word. — The gospel, which is the doctrine of Christ's 
spiritual kingdom, by which he also gathereth together his elect, 
and governeth them. Under standeth it not. — Doth not conceive 
any lively light thereof in his soul, nor receive any deep impression 
by virtue of the spirit, to the end that his heart may be bent and 
his blood life subservient to the obedience of faith, and to a spiritual 
renewment (Rom. xii. 2). In his heart. — That it might come to 



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his heart, the seat of blood life propelling power, through the ex- 
ternal senses, but could not take root there by reason of the heart's 
hardness, or, plainly, in his knowledge soul mind. 

20.] But he. — There is another kind of man, who indeed gives 
some admittance or entrance to God's word, but the heart blood 
life's sensualities, and lusts in aspirations, being not mollified by 
love of truth, gratitude and spirit- love to the blood life senses, nor 
disburdened of its perverseness and natural rebellion, set forth in 
comparison to the stones in the field, the gospel is not ingrafted 
in it, nor united to it by a lively faith and love, which are the true 
and only causes of perseverance (Heb. iv. 2 ; James i. 21). 

21.] Is offended. — Loves his old vicious habits, and lust gratifi- 
cations and appetites better than holiness, purity, truth, and spirit 
life immortal love, that would draw them as a magnet to God the 
spirit life immortal source of all love that is immortal. Blood life 
animal love soon grows cold, alienated, unwilling; blood life also 
soon dies, and all its affinities are in opposition rebellion to holi- 
ness, until new creature spirit birth development of love spiritual, 
which if allied to God by way of Christ is then only immortal. 

22.] Among the. — Jer. iv. 3 : Break up your fallow ground, and 
sow not among thorns. Deceit fulness. — Covetousness increases with 
the accumulation of riches ; it is like the drunkard's appetite, ever 
wanting more. Eccles. v. 10 : He that loveth silver shall not be 
satisfied with silver. They become miserly, or proud and domineer- 
ing, and full of worldly cares. 

23. j Good ground. — God's spirit life immortal seed, sown by 
his mediatorial spirit word creation power Son our Lord Christ 
Jesus, in the intellectual she soul womb will door, and truth belief 
spirit love milt coming in contact with the soul's intellect spirit 
egg mind, and impregnating it with immortal life, under the infi- 
nite mercy Holy Ghost's dove baptism, it brings forth quickly a 
new creature, intellectual being, full of the spirit love of Christ, 
having intellectual peace of mind and joy in the protecting care of 
the Holy Ghost. Bear eth fruit. — Of confession of what the Lord 
hath done for them, good works, new obedience, and perseverance, 
love of truth, holiness to the Lord, supreme love to God, and love 
to their brethren like them spirit born, and a desire that all should 
embrace the gospel truths. 

24.] Good seed. — The Christian sows truth seeds. The devil's 
tare seed children sow lie seeds about the Christians. 

25.] Tares. — A kind of hurtful plant which injured the grain 

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in Palestine ; a vile, ugly, annoying, injurious weed, that then at 
that date was exceedingly hurtful to grain fields, and the farmers 
at great labor pulled it up, and burnt it to destroy its seeds. He 
shows that the good and the bad shall be enrolled on the church 
records of earth, that holy believers and faithful members might 
learn to arm themselves with patience and constancy. A parable 
of Abraham finely illustrates it, viz., that a man called on Abra- 
ham who was an avowed atheist infidel, and told Abraham he did 
not believe there was any God. Abraham ordered him to leave 
his house at once. God then asked Abraham where the man was 
that had called upon him. Abraham said he drove him from his 
house because he denied God's existence. Then God replied, I 
have patiently borne with that sinner threescore and ten years, and 
couldst not thou thy fellow mortal by nature birth bear company 
one hour? Often patience is severely tried in churches, where 
wicked officials as well as lay members are retained on the church 
rolls, and false creeds. 

26.] Fruit. — The perfectly ripe ear of truth seed. Tares. — 
False mockers of truth. 

29.] Nay. — We cannot see the heart's blood life, nor soul mind, 
thoughts, desires, besetting sins, nor surrounding foes ; we may 
judge very erroneously ; especially if we take the tare seed testimony 
of the haters of truth, we shall assuredly misjudge and condemn 
the innocent. If the Pontius Pilates and pharisaic popes, cardi- 
nals, bishops and priests, and the other devil tare seed lawyers, 
judges and officials of the earth were to be judges of Christ's 
genuine (not bastard professors) spirit begotten of God children 
on earth, they would most likely fare as their Lord did. 

30.] Grow together. — He means not that liberty should be given 
to wicked men, or that they should be suffered to remain in the 
church, when clearly discovered to be Satan's tares, without a palli- 
ating doubt. For he hath appointed means for cleansing the 
church, and Jesus also set the example himself when he drove out 
the money changers and sellers of doves. But he showeth that it 
shall never be perfectly purified upon earth. Of harvest. — That 
is, at the consummation of the world, the close of time's probation ; 
the tares, the children of the devil or evil unclean spirits or devils, 
in spirit form and in Adamic human bodies alive on earth, and all 
devils, fallen angels, and evil tares of all lighted space, as national 
bundles, shall be consumed with this earth (38-40). 

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sense, namely, to show that Christ's spiritual kingdom and the state 
of his church groweth out of very small beginnings to a supreme 
greatness and power, by the secret virtue of the Holy Ghost (Ezek. 
xlvii. 1-5 ; Deut. ii. 34, 35 ; Isa. ii. 2, 3 ; Mic. iv. 1 ; Mark iv. 30 ; 
Luke xiii. 18). 

32.] The least. — That is to show that we should not be aston- 
ished at the small beginnings of the gospel. Becometh. — This was 
a singularity of that country. 

33.] Till the ivhole. — By this he exhorts the faithful patiently 
to expect that fruit the gospel brings with it. 

34.] Without a parable. — Christ held the people in suspense 
and longing, that they might the more earnestly desire to compre- 
hend these things when the time should come. The Hebrew word 
signifies grave and sententious discourse, proverbs, and similitudes ; 
this was because the doctrine might carry with it the greater ma- 
jesty. All who use the Lord's parables as seals to found false creeds 
mock God. 

35.] That it might. — Ps. lxxviii. 2 : I will open my mouth in 
a parable ; I will utter dark sayings of old. Prov. xxvi. 7 : The 
legs of the lame are not equal ; so is a parable in the mouth of fools. 
The parable of the Jews as Dives, and Gentiles as Lazarus, is made 
by them also blind. 

36.] Declare unto us. — Clearly showing the statement true that 
in parables only the Lord spoke to the self-righteous Jews, who 
had been given riches of plainly declared laws by Moses and the 
prophets for their guidance, while the miserably poor Gentiles had 
no guidance of God's revealed will to guide them, save crumbs that 
fell from the lips of Jews outside of the synagogue, the rich man's 
table. 

37.] He answered. — Our dear Redeemer kindly explained to 
his disciples, He that soweth the good seed (spirit love life im- 
mortal seed in the soul's spirit egg mind intellect, and heavenly 
wisdom, knowledge and understanding) is the Son of man; used 
over ninety times to the prophet of God, Ezekiel, as xiii. 2 : And 
the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Son of man, prophesy 
against the prophets of Israel. Job xxv. 6 : How much less man, 
that is a worm, and the son of man which is a worm. Ps. xxii. 
6 : Bat I am a worm, and no man ; a reproach of men, and de- 
spised of the people (this was our Lord Jesus that David spoke 
of, prophesying). 16 : They pierced my hands and my feet. 18: 
Part my garments among them, and cast lots for my vesture. 29 : 



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All they that go down to the dust shall bow before him, and none 
can keep alive his own soul. 30 : A seed shall serve him ; it shall 
be accounted to the Lord for a generation. Isa. xli. 14 : Fear not, 
thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel ; I will help thee, saith the 
Lord, and thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. Isa. vii. 14 : 
Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign : Behold, a virgin 
shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. Isa. 
ix. 6 : For unto us a child is born, unto us a son (of man Adam the 
first of our race by descent came the Virgin Mary, her woman's seed 
egg was of Adamic life, therefore the flesh blood life body of Jesus 
was the son of man, and of woman's seed, Glen. iii. 15). The Son. — 
Who in his proper person first sowed his Father's grace proclama- 
tion conditional with obedience thereto spirit word of God seed of 
gospel light truth promise, soul spirit egg intellectual mind seed, 
and afterwards continueth the sowing of it by his mediators between 
him and the rebel nature lust sin nature blood life egg seed of all 
females, which in a like manner is quickened into life only by male 
contact milt seed ; thus, in like manner all who are spirit born 
of God's spirit word life immortal promise seed in Christ Jesus, 
the spirit mediator between the spirit God, who nature mortals 
cannot approach unto in their nature earthy state, nor comprehend ; 
but after spirit birth by way of Christ's gospel truth words quick- 
ening milt, by way of the soul's will door comes in contact with 
the soul intellect mind egg, and the baptism of the intellect new 
spirit born creature, by infinite mercy of the Holy Ghost, then all 
such become mediums between Christ and mortals, and by preaching 
truthfully God's gospel truths (not men tradition false creeds hung 
upon gnat misconstructions of parables, and wholly discarding 
God's gospel statute laws), working in and by them, through his 
only power and virtue granting each spirit born of his spirit (Rom. 
viii. 9). 

38.] The children. — Namely, the true believers, begotten by 
spirit word life immortal seed (John vi. 63), and adopted and re- 
generated by the Sovereign of the universe who alone hath immor- 
tality. 1 Tim. vi. 16 : And made heirs of the everlasting kingdom 
of glory ; which spirit life immortal gospel words are sown, and 
raised, and brought forth in the world by the preaching of the 
gospel by holy spirit born new creatures in Christ Jesus (2 Cor. v. 
17 ; Gal. vi. 7, 8, 15). The tare seed children of the devil were 
like those unclean spirits or devils, cast out by Christ Jesus' word 
of God command (Matt. viii. 28) ; and others were the tare seed 



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children of the devil, that had been sown in the soul mind eggs of 
mortals when in blood life bodies on earth ; whose blood life flesh 
lust sin begotten and vegetation nature condensed bodies were then 
rotten in or on the earth, or returned to earth elements in utter death, 
never again to see life (Gen. iii. 19 ; Eccles. xii. 7). I could not 
preach an endless fire of torture to rebel sinners, nor the resurrec- 
tion of the rotten particles of decayed matter bodies made from a 
grass base. Isa. xl. 6, 7 : Surely the people is grass. Nor from 
the bodies of mortals made of dead swine and other dead bodies of 
animate or inanimate life. Nor that fallible man's translation of 
the Bible is truth infallible. But I would teach that all parts there- 
of correctly translated, and God's untranslated book of nature life, 
is truth infallible. All traditions of men preachers have many 
things handed down in sectarian theology utterly void of truth. 

39.] The enemy. — Is the devil. Church members at colleges 
where heathen mythology is taught by way of worldly wise self- 
conceited mortals, who grasp at the structure of the earth from 
outcroppings or upheavals by earthquakes ; and teach that there 
never was a flood that covered the earth, and that the north pole 
was never submerged by being tipped down, instead of up as now ; 
and that the bodies of elephants found on the northern mountains 
of Siberia were natives of that country when it was a tropical 
country, etc ; such wise infidels teach that the Lord's devil is a 
myth, when they have his unclean spirit darkness dictating all their 
thoughts, and are his maturing tare seed children. Like the vile 
child, they know not their father the devil ; and therefore deny 
Scripture truths. Unbelief of gospel truths is an evidence of soul 
blindness to spirit truths. The soul spirit mind egg will door 
opened to the spirit of worldly wisdom aspirations and self- 
aggrandizement. 

40.] In the end. — When all liars, like the tares, are consumed 
with this earth ; when all men tradition false creed preachers and 
their believers, and scandalous hypocritical and profane men, shall 
be separated and rooted out of the church forever. Many are, 
and many more should be removed before (Ps. ci. 8, and 1 Cor. v. 
13). It is plainly stated here, as God's infallible unmistakable 
law, that in like manner that the people of Palestine then burned 
up the vile tare weeds, the wicked on earth at the close of time, 
and the devil and his tare seed children and all unclean spirits and 
death are to perish with the earth's conflagration, and be hurled 
with their refuse, and the refuse of this sin curst earth, into the 

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chaotic .outer darkness outside of lighted space. John xii. 35 : 
He that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. 
Matt. vili. 12 : Outer darkness. 2 Pet. ii. 4 ; iii. 10 : The earth 
also, and the works that are therein, shall be burnt up. Job x. 
21 : Land of darkness, and the shadow of death. Job was a 
spirit born child of God, and at body death of blood life his 
spirit saw the shadow of death, and went in a spirit body to 
heaven. John xi. 25, 26 : Whosoever liveth (spirit born life) and 
believeth in me shall never die. Job x. 22 ; Isa. v. 24 : There- 
fore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth 
the chaff, so their (the incorrigibly wicked) root shall be rotten- 
ness, and their blossom shall go up as dust : because they have 
cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and despised the word 
(Christ Jesus) of the Holy One of Israel. Mai. iv. 1 : For behold 
the day conieth that shall burn as an oven ; and all the proud, 
yea, and all that do wickedly shall be stubble : and the day that 
cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall 
leave them neither root nor branch, utter destruction of the incor- 
rigibly wicked. Matt, iii. 12 : And gather his wheat (saints holy) 
into the garner (heaven). But will burn up the chaff with un- 
quenchable fire. Which fire is God's justice sword of flame word. 
Deut. iv. 24 : For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire. Heb. 
xii. 29 : For our God is a consuming fire. Nothing can quench 
God's fire, and it is everlasting, but not so the wicked. 

41.] Things that offend. — That is, all persons, all incorrigibly 
wicked, which by their deeds and examples serve for nothing but 
offense to God's justice and patient forbearance, and hindrance, 
corruption, and ruin of others. 

42.] Furnace of fire. — The earth on fire, and its elements, into 
which unclean spirits and the devil and fallen angels that kept not 
their first probation state, that float as soul miasma poison in the 
air element of earth, shall all be consumed when Christ, as judge 
of all, leaves his mediatorial throne, and pronounces the sentence, 
Depart, ye accursed, into the justice flame of second or soul un- 
clean spirit death, then earth shall flee away as the sin goat into 
the outer darkness bottomless pit of death's chaotic night of eter- 
nal darkness death that hath never a ray of life light. Kev. xx. 
11 : The earth and the heaven (earth's atmosphere on fire) fled 
away ; and there was no place found for them. In lighted space 
they are swept into inane chaos beneath lighted space. Rev. xxii. 
8 : But the fearful and unbelieving (of God's truths), and the 



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abominable (nicknamers and slanderers of God's children), and 
murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all 
liars, shall have their part in the lake which burnetii with fire and 
brimstone. Which is the second death : souls' and unclean spirits' 
death ; the first is body blood life death ; the second is soul and 
spirit death. The nations then on earth in human bodies, as in 
the flood, will gnash, curse, and moan, when earthquakes upheave 
earth's crust, and internal fires burst forth in eruptions. Matt, 
xxiv. 37 : As the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of 
the Son of man be. Luke xvii. 29 : The same day Lot went out 
of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed 
(annihilated) them all. 30 : Even thus shall it be when the Son 
of man (the Lord Christ Jesus) is revealed. 2 Thess. ii. 8 : And 
then shall that wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume 
with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the bright- 
ness of his coming. 

43.] The sun, — The righteous spirit born of Christ's spirit 
word life seed immortal life, then in unity, shine as the sun : not 
as Babel sects, with men tradition creeds, but like Scripture truths 
united. Let there be light ; and there was light. 

44.] T/ie kingdom. — Christ's whole spiritual kingdom is a thing 
of such incomparable value, that to obtain it all other manner of 
good things comparatively ought to be laid aside and forsaken, 
which is the laudable purchase pointed at (Isa. lv. 1 ; Hev. iii. 
18). He hideth. — He receives it into his soul intellect egg mind 
through his ear or sight will doors, it takes command of the heart 
blood life senses and in the inner spirit life keeps sacred from mortal 
outward sight the pearl seed spirit of Christ within his or her soul 
mind, which aided by the Holy Ghost infinite mercy of God 
quickens into a new creature life the spirit child of God, — spirit 
born of God's immortal spirit life in Christ's spirit life promise word. 

45.] Pearls. — Good intellectual spirit wisdom, knowledge, and 
understanding pearls. 

46.] Sold all that he had. — Blood life recreations, and vicious 
sinful lusts and appetites ; and like the war soldier gave blood life, 
to become a soldier in spirit life's army of light, to make war upon 
the broad- way hosts of darkness, and false creeds and superstitions. 

47.] Is like. — The preaching of the gospel gathereth together 
into the external body of the church not only all the spirit born 
holy believers, but many professors unspirit born, with mere ex- 
ternal name on the church record to vote temporally, but no 



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record in the Lord's spirit book of life immortal ; long ceremonial 
pharisaical prayers, deacon, class leader or preacher, with varied 
office-holder titles, or adornings of popish clown triplicate hat 
crowns, of no value practically as a hat to shelter from the sun's 
rays, or rain, mere childish baubles as are all earthly crowns, and 
court tinsel nonsense, to act as so many clowns their part of a silly 
circus, are all titled church officials and popish Latin mummeries, 
and read prayers by machine imitators and ceremonial litanies that 
give not forth spirit birth, but after responses before the echo had 
fairly died away in the streets returning home. I have heard 
the same loud Amener blaspheme God's holy name, and mummery 
ceremonial robed preachers of the Church of England's shame 
have ran horses the afternoon after preaching. Many hypocrites, 
also other hardened infidels, wicked men, women, and children, 
who shall never be wholly severed from the hearing of the gospel 
trumpets, but at the end of the world. The nets referred to were a 
kind of seine or drag nets, which dragged upon the ground at the 
water's bottom and brought up whatever they met with. Of 
every kind. — Both good and evil, righteous and wicked. 

48.] Cast the bad away. — The incorrigibly bad wicked mortals 
are worthless as rotten potatoes, or rotten eggs ; when their blood 
life body shell is broken, a rotten stench is all that is resurrected. 
The bad rotten, or the bad kinds of fish or eels, or water snakes, 
that the net brings to shore, are all like the incorrigibly wicked, 
cast away to rot as dung upon the earth ; and their refuse con- 
sumes with the earth at time's close. 

49.] So shall it be. — There are few, if any preachers, that 
plainly teach the Lord's doctrines of eternal truth, that the wicked 
are cast away like bad fish, and burned up with the earth. Those 
alive in human bodies on the earth at time's close are the ones 
spoken of that in anger and pain anguish gnash their teeth in 
bitter despair, when hope of deliverance hath fled forever ; and 
dread realities of mad and pent up fires burst forth in eruptive 
earthquakes, and forked lightnings and fire and brimstone, as 
torrent showers fall from earth's surrounding atmosphere, when 
the spirit born children of God, like Lot from Sodom, leave no 
one to plead for infinite mercy, to stay God's justice sword of fiery 
flame ; that devils and unclean spirits, fallen angels, and rebel 
incorrigibly wicked of all ages past, concentrated on this crust 
of God's earth death hell of graves, when the angels of God 
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Sodom, then speedily will time close, the horrid second unclean 
spirit deaths will then as fiery pestilence attract unclean spirits 
in the incorrigibly wicked with fear, no more seductive dancing 
music of Edenic viper serpents will cheer their horrid lust be- 
gotten sin bodies. No dancing then ; but the dancers at mid- 
night will howl for anguish in despair, and gnash their teeth 
with anathemas against their false preachers of false creeds of 
peace. Matt. x. 28 : Fear him which is able to destroy (annihi- 
late) both soul and body in hell. Mark i. 24 : Art thou come 
to destroy us? 2 Pet. ii. 12: But these natural brute beasts, 
made to be taken and destroyed, and shall utterly perish in their 
own corruption (rottenness). Heb. ii. 14 : Destroy him that hath 
the power of death, that is the devil. Unclean spirits, as time's 
closing fires draws nigh, will enter into government officials ; and 
plunders, wars, and crimes will increase in all the wicked on earth, 
as before the flood, only evil thoughts (Gen. vi. 5). 

50.] The furnace of fire. — The centre of the earth is the fur- 
nace of fire pent up ready to leap forth and consume the incor- 
rigibly wicked, at the command of the Judge of the earth. 

51.] Unto them. — Namely, to his disciples. 

52. j Therefore. — Preachers of the gospel spirit born holy, that 
Christ's spirit word life dwells in, are searchers of the Scriptures 
to learn therefrom things old and truthful, and daily pray to God 
by way of Christ Jesus for new heavenly wisdom. All such have 
fresh new spirit developments to declare unto their hearers. But 
tradition creeds of men, called by self-desires to follow preaching 
as a trade for pay, and to receive the men commissioned parchment 
to preach, have theology politician calls to preach old false creeds 
of men's manufacture ; creeds of men commandments. 

54.] His own. — To Nazareth, where the woman's seed blood 
life body resided (Matt. ii. 23 ; Heb. ii. 14). Mighty works. — 
The mighty works were done by his spirit word power spirit Son 
of God, that had veiled of his spirit love infinite in the blood life 
spirit begotten of woman's seed (Gen. iii. 15), Jesus, and for the 
express purpose of destroying the devil and death by way of the 
sacrifice of tho blood life spirit begotten without sin lust seed, 
as fully stated in Heb. ii. 14. Faith is requisite to displays of 
spirit powers of God on earth, and those who grow up with flesh 
lust bodies of sin, with the spirit born holy, have not the soul 
mind belief fail h in them, that they will have in an utter stranger, 
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55.] Brethren. — Seeing that Joseph was held to be his father. 
They were in utter nature darkness, un spirit born ; and looked not 
at the proof miracles that Jesus brought forth to their nature 
visions ; but like the faithless false creed traditions of men the- 
ology sectarian creed pharisaical preachers to-day they look 
wholly to nature body worship resurrections and arbitrary tyranny 
torture punishments eternal, of all who disagreed with their false 
creeds, instead of honestly seeking for truth of the Lord and 
his prophets and apostles, spirit born holy seed of Christ's spirit 
truth ; judging that they know all about the spirit born and 
spirit begotten, when truthfully they are utterly destitute of any 
experimental knowledge whatever of Jesus or of his spirit born 
children of whom they would judge. 

56.] Whence. — Where did Jesus, they ask of each other, ob- 
tain the wisdom and miraculous powers that we must acknowledge 
he possesses ? not at colleges. 

57.] Offended. — They desired of Jesus proofs of the source of 
his superior knowledge, and were offended at their own want of 
capacity to comprehend spiritual things, known only by experi- 
mental spirit birth. Save in. — A common proverb, grounded upon 
the ordinary vice in men, that is to make small account of home- 
bred things, and to give but little respect to their own countrymen 
even in most holy offices, because intimate familiarity and acquaint- 
ance breed contempt in all Satan's children against the righteous. 

58.] Their unbelief. — Through which they made themselves 
unworthy of God's favor, and also did nullify the chief use of 
miracles, which is the confirmation of the faith to heavenly 
doctrines (Mark vi. 5). 



Chapter XIY. 



1.] Herod. — Surnamed Antipas, who was the son of Her. d 
called the Great, by some surnamed Ascalonites, who caused the 
children to be slain (Luke iii. 1). Tetrarch. — This name sig- 
nifies a lord or prince of the fourth part of a country. By this 
it seemeth, that under Alexander's successors began this division 
of Palestine, called also Judea, into four parts, of which the an- 
cient Judea, the land of the tribe of Judah, made the one 



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(Luke iii. 1). Now after the death of Herod the Great, Antony, 
and after him the Emperor Augustus, divided -also this kingdom 
of Herod's into four parts among his children, taking the ancient 
Judea away from them and the title of kings, though by abuse 
they yet retained the title among themselves ; and to this Herod's 
lot fell Perea and Galilee under the name of tetrarchy. 

2.] He is risen. — This was a common error, that they thought 
the souls of such as were deceased were transmigrated into some 
other body. Pythagoras and his disciples were of this opinion. 
The Egyptians also believed in the transmigration of and return 
of souls into the dead body again after the death of the animal 
into which they had entered, provided their old first body was 
whole ; therefore, they at enormous expense embalmed the bodies 
of their dead, which we find, after three thousand years, still un- 
inhabited, and they are exhibited as Egyptian mummies. Equally 
absurd, and more erroneously visionary and crazy, is the idea pro- 
mulgated by preachers of men tradition creeds in this age of the 
world, 1871, viz., that the transmigrated soul re-enters the body 
worn out, rotten, eat up by trees and vegetation, and mortals and 
beasts and sharks and other fish, and they all again rot, and are 
redevoured by worms ; and then the rotten potato, grass seed, 
swine, and other meats of dead bodies eaten, and fruits, etc., 
rotted ; their god they mock and blaspheme as a god of the dead, 
rotten grass bodies. Isa. xl. 6, 7 : Surely the people is grass. 
17 : All nations are before God as nothing ; and they are counted 
to him less than nothing, and vanity. Luke xx. 38 : For he 
is not a God of the dead, but of the living. But they cast all 
statute laws of God's Scriptures aside even. 1 Cor. xv. 44 : It 
is sown a nature body ; it is raised a spiritual body. 37 : Thou 
so west not that body that shall be. Look at the sown grain of 
wheat or any other grain ; still their myth god they mock as a 
resurrector of rotten bodies. If I should say rotten potatoes 
(out of which, when sound and eaten, portions of many human 
bodies are made) were to be resurrected to sound potatoes, all 
sane men would righteously consider me insane ; or that the rot- 
ten apple's sound seed (emblem of the soul's mind egg) put into 
congenial soil in a proper season of the year would, if nurtured, 
bear apples sound, that is sane, but resurrecting rotten apples is 
an insane idea ; and equally insane is transmigration of souls to 
heaven, and then, after thousands of years to have God resurrect 
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216 MATTHEW XIV. 

back to earthy elements, is equally insane and worse, for it is 
mocking God's power and is blasphemy. Mighty worhs. — The 
meaning is, he is a man wholly divine and celestial, and hath 
angels to assist him, working in him and by him. Show forth. — ■ 
That is, to confirm his resurrection and to invest him in greater 
authority. I say the soul, if impregnated with the spirit of 
Christ, will be a spirit immortal like God the Father of all spirits 
(nothing in nature rotten is ever restored to life again ; body 
worship, self-love, begets the rotten body, resurrection thought of 
life). 

3.] Had laid hold. — Having found him in his juridisction, 
whither, it is likely, John went by divine inspiration to divert 
Herod from his incest, for otherwise Herod had no jurisdiction 
in Judea of which John the Baptist was, and where he had his 
ordinary abode (Luke xxiii. 7). And had not received any 
such power from the Romans, as afterward his son Herod Agrippa 
did (Acts xii. 1). His brother. — By the father, but not by the 
mother side. 

4.] Not lawful. — For it relished both of rape and incest. 

5.] When he would.-. — Mark vi. 19 : This is attributed to 
Herodias, not to Herod, who contrariwise did keep John from being 
put to death for a certain time ; but that which is here spoken may 
be referred to some sudden danger, which was abated by some 
second thoughts set forth by St. Mark. 

6.] Birthday. — According to the custom of antiquity. The 
daughter. — By her first husband called Salome. Danced. — Ac- 
cording to their lascivious manner, to excite lust. Exocl. xxxii. 19 : 
Moses saw the calf and the dancing. They danced nearly naked 
around the calf, which they called their god. I think all dancers' 
intellectual faculties are in their heels and toes, below the calves 
of their limbs. 10 : The Lord said unto Moses, Let me alone 
(intercede not by prayer petitions, sowing to me, for God had 
promised to be a prayer-hearing and a prayer-answering God to 
his spirit born holy obedient children), that my wrath (displeasure 
with mocking insults of the Jews, that called a golden calf their 
god in mockery of almighty Jehovah God, the sovereign creator, 
and sustainer and ruler of the universe, and their lust vile dances) 
may wax hot (to consume them in a moment) against them, and 
that I may consume them. Job xxi. 7 : Wherefore do the wicked 
live? 11: They send forth their little ones like a flock. And 
their children dance (Isa. v. 12, 24; xiv. 11 ; Amos vi. 5). 



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7.] Ash.— Herod's vile sin lusts were pleased at his step- 
daughter's lascivious dancing. 

8.] Give me. — Thus clearly showing vile inner feelings of the 
Gemon in the lascivious dancer. John Baptist's head in a 
charger. — The forerunner and baptizer of our Lord Jesus Christ, 
his head dancing cost. Let every one tempted by animal lusts, 
the wicked world's unclean spirits, and the devil, to spend his 
emblem darkness night for evil cover in dancing, reflect that all its 
antecedents and surroundings are cursed of God, and leads down 
hell's broad grogshop ballroom lust way to hell. 

9.] Oath's sake. — Having made a rash promise, he would cover 
his obstinacy with pretense of his oath, as if he that feared not 
incest and murder would fear violating of an oath made when 
under false evil influence of Satanic hallucination. 

11.] She brought it. — The inhumanity of this act of the horrid 
dancer appears the more, in that the head of this holy man after 
his death is thus showed about in scorn and mockery, as a triumph 
of lascivious dancing. Every night dancer should blush with 
shame and repent in tears, ere too late. 

12.] The body. — Which was cast there in derision of righteous- 
ness. Buried it. — That the flesh body tabernacle should not be 
left as dung upon the earth or food for dogs, as if in derision of 
their old habitation ; but thereby fulfilling the return to dust. Told 
Jesus. — All spirit born of Christ's seed tell Jesus of their sorrows, 
and ask his guidance ; John the Baptist had so instructed his 
disciples. 

13.] Apart. — To strengthen and comfort his disciples, which 
were yet weak and amazed at John's death. 

14.] Healed. — Jesus ever showed that (rod his Father, as him- 
self, was love. 

15.] The time. — To be abroad in the fields, out of the wood's 
darkness, on their way home. 

16.] Need, not. — To show us that he will not suffer them to be 
destitute of bodily food, who come to seek for spiritual. 

19.] He blessed. — He asked his Father to bless with expansion 
the five loaves and two fishes ; whether he used any vocal words 
or not is not stated. A mental prayer secretly to Grod is com- 
manded by our Lord, and voids all vain hypocrisy of vocal read- 
ing, or studied words, and forms of prayers to be heard of men, 
which Christ strictly forbids his disciples to do. To praise Grod 
mentally before and after eating for all his kindness in bestowal of 
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218 MATTHEW XIV. 

food and health, to partake thereof, and freedom from foes, and 
peace of mind (Deut. viii. 10). 

20.] Filled. — Abundance, and a surplus over greater than when 
distributed. The same increase is shown miraculously to-day in 
every grain sown on good ground. 

22.] Constrained. — For they parted from him very reluctantly, 
especially to go upon the water, so late without him, in whom was 
all their confidence. 

23.] Apart to fray. — To show us an example of the doctrine 
he formerly taught, Matt. vi. 6. Secret mental prayer. Not as 
some orthodox preachers read prayers to be heard by men's ears, 
and vocally, with flowery words studied, and ceremonial telling 
what God knows better than they do. All such so-called prayers 
are vain delusions, void of faith. Matt. viii. 10 ; xvii. 20 ; xxiii. 
23 ; Mark iv. 40; xi. 22 ; Luke xvii. 5, 6 ; xviii. 8 : When the 
Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth ? Heb. xi. 1 : 
Faith is the substance of things hoped for (when we pray desiring 
those things we are in need of), the evidence of things not seen 
(or heard). 6 : But without faith it is impossible to please God. 
For he that cometh to God (in secret fervent faith heart desire 
prayers) must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them 
that diligently seek him. 

24.] Of the sea. — Of the lake (called sea) of Gennesaret. 

25.] Watch. — The night being divided into four equal parts 
(being three hours each ; this then was some three hours before 
daylight), in which the watches of cities were relieved (Mark 
xiii. 35). 

26.] Cried out. — It is a spirit, for no mere human being could 
thus walk on the water. 

27.] It is I. — Christ's presence makes his children confident of 
help, even in blood life's death. They are sure of his protection 
from the devil and unclean spirits. 

28.] Bid me come. — Peter's zeal here is great, but he is not 
provident enough in measuring and examining his faith. 

30.] Lord, save. — Peter's prayer was earnest ; it was not words 
to be heard of men, falsely called prayers, when read or spoken 
vocally : Be merciful to me a sinner. 

31.] IAttle faith. — Christ is in such a manner his assistant, as 
yet notwithstanding he checks him for his fault. Doubt. — Wavered 
in the confidence which thou shouldst have in my words of truth 
eternal, which had also been the cause of his sinking, as not hold- 



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ing himself firmly by faith love, to him that held him up, James 
i. 6. 

33.] Worshiped him. — With great reverence, being astonished 
at the miracle. Son of God. — They had as yet no true knowledge 
of the godhead of Christ, but they acknowledged in him only a 
divine power, which was a preparation to true faith. 

36.] That they might. — Through great faith and humility, or 
by some mixture of faith and superstitious thought that Christ's 
power did communicate itself to his garments, which inference 
they drew from the miracle set down, Matt. ix. 20, and was toler- 
ated by the Lord. The Saviour is the spirit battery power ; 
faith puts forth in sacred prayer all the heart blood life desires ; 
the touch, the intellect" spirit egg mind believing power of the 
soul and will door opens, being persuaded thereto by the with- 
drawal of the superstitious unbelief darkness bar to truth lights 
entrance within the soul's dormant spirit intellect mind ; spirit 
life's immortal unseen by mortal eyes light, impregnates the intel- 
lect mind egg with quickening resurrecting life immortal, and 
lights up with God's eternal love pulsations the new creature in 
Christ Jesus. Love that ever after, while abiding in God's favor 
sunshine obedience to his commands ; light life pulsates love, and 
enjoys heavenly peace of mind ad infinitum. Like the touch of 
the hand of the woman with an issue of blood, the truthful faith 
that worketh by love, truth, obedience to God's spirit law require 
ments, adoration, love, gratitude, and praise, light bursts forth 
from the new spirit born creature, which the good spirit life im- 
mortal faith receiving telegram wire by way of the spirit seed of 
immortal life love, that impregnates the soul's spirit egg intellect 
mind, and lights up with immortal life the soul's intellectual spirit 
egg mind with a ray of God's eternal spirit light. 



Chapter XV. 



1.] Of Jerusalem. — Which were there present, or had come 
from Jerusalem, and were then of greatest esteem, and had most 
authority among the people. 

2.] The tradition. — This word, with the addition your, or of 



220 MATTHEW XV. 

men, or of the elders, or the like, signifieth a doctrine, creed, or order 
of observance touching God's service instituted by men, and kept 
from father to son, men tradition creeds, as now received by the 
various Babel sectarians on the earth ; but not out of God's express 
words and statute Scripture laws, of which Jewish traditions some 
were laudable, concerning the order and decency of the Jewish 
church, in things indifferent ; others as now regarding eternal 
hell fire torture, resurrection of rotten bodies, etc., were supersti- 
tious, and otherwise wicked and vile mockeries of God. Of the 
elders. — Prelates of the Jewish church (Matt. v. 21), or whether 
he means those of former times, who made those laws (Mark vii. 3). 

3.] Why do ye. — The Lord is content to reprove the Pharisees' 
hypocrisy by a just recrimination, without giving them any in- 
struction upon their questions, which he doth nevertheless to his 
apostles. Of God. — Christ maintains his Father's glory and 
honor against men's tradition creeds. 

4.] Honor. — That is, love as your own life and comforts for 
thy body, thy father and mother's comforts, and sacrifice thy 
worldly aspirations, and cheer them while they live. 

5.] Ye say. — By a false interpretation in a matter of vows. It 
is a. — Matt, xxiii. 18 : See of these oaths. By ivhatsoever. — It 
appears, by the Jews' writings, words pronounced in manner of 
an oath by an irreverent child, that is angry with father or mother. 
The meaning is, I swear that I will never do thee any good, ser- 
vice, or assistance ; no more than it is lawful for me to present 
unto thee, nor thee to take any consecrated things which are 
offered to God, in which rank even at this present by an express 
vow I do put all such things as thou mightest ever expect from 
me, or which I might be minded to do for thee. And this vain 
rash wicked oath and vow was allowed of by those doctors of 
divinity, who were themselves devils, damned ; and their divinity 
the devil as an angel of light. By reason of the respect they had 
for offerings (which they made use of in their most strict and 
inviolable oaths, Matt, xxiii. 16, 18), more than to Grod's law 
written on Mount Sinai, commanding them to honor their father 
and mother, which comprehends all the duties of children to their 
parents, and against the law of doing them no wrong, whereof this 
execration was of the vilest kind of disobedience to God's com- 
mands, and ought to have been annulled and punished, rather than 
to have been approved of and held to be firm and irrevocable, as 
by D. D.'s to-day, regarding the mockery of God with rotten body 



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resurrections, and the eternal fire tortures of the incorrigible sin- 
begotten atoms of animate dust (Isa. xl. 6, 7, 15, 17; v. 24). 
Nothing on earth, rotten, is raised to life, God's book of nature 
truth condemns traditions false creeds. Reason revolts, and nature 
proves utterly false, rotten body life. 

6.] And honor not. — God the spiritual Father of all spirit born 
of Christ's spirit love seed of spirit life immortal. 1 Tim. vi. 16 : 
God who only hath immortality; and Mark vii. 12, by honoring 
their father and mother, is meant to serve and relieve with all 
manner of respect. Of none effect. — Ye are the cause that the 
commandment is broken, by your men tradition false creed doc- 
trine, which teaches men's consciences to have more respect to 
these vicious oaths or pledges to sectarian creeds, than to the ex- 
press laws of God, as taught in his Scriptures of divine truths, 
and all by the reason of the superstitious esteem in which you 
hold these ceremonies, above true and real piety by way of spirit 
birth, and the duties thereof. 

7.] Saying. — What Isaiah saith of the hypocrites of his time 
may properly be applied to you, which do the same things, and 
misconstrue parables, and discard God's statute laws. 

8.] Mouth. — Make loud, long prayers, with studied words to 
please the ears of mortals, or read them. 

9.] But in vain. — God will not be served according to men's 
fancies, for such service is before him burdensome mockery, and 
accursed ; they in doing so place their own before God's wisdom ; 
D.D.'s teach that their church officials, commissioned to preach the 
gospel, are exclusive to all others to preach in their churches, thereby 
setting at naught the commissions of the Lord Jesus Christ, unless 
those commissioned by him have their commissions vised by sec- 
tarian preachers, with traditions of men false creed, that like the 
Jewish corban, wholly contradicts God's statute laws, and others 
are treated as heretics to their pagan Roman Catholic creeds of 
men's wisdom of the world's collegiate self-esteem wisdom, by way 
of heathen philosophers of Greece and Rome, now taught therein. 1 
Cor. i. 17 to 21 : The world by wisdom knew not God (2 Cor. iii. 17). 

11.] Not that. — Your corporal uncleanness, for which the 
Pharisees have appointed so many washings before meals, for fear 
lest the food should be made unclean, and defile the man that 
should use it, cannot stain the soul, nor the conscience (1 Cor. vi. 13 ; 
Col. ii. 22 ; Titus i. 15) ; but your vices and sins,-which proceed from 
your heart's blood life lusts, and evil sinful nature by evil words 

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222 MATTHEW XV. 

of blasphemy, nicknames, lies, and false mockeries of God, by way 
of false men tradition creeds, and deeds of evil. Now he especially 
insisteth upon the words, to make good the opposition between that 
which cometh in and that which goeth out of the mouth (Exod. 
xxiii. 8 ; Matt. xxvi. 44). John vi. 68 : Thou hast the words of 
eternal life. Jer. xxiii. 36 : For every man's word shall be his 
burden : for ye (by false men tradition creeds as preached to-day, 
that it takes God forever with his justice fire to destroy the incor- 
rigibly wicked ; when he told Moses and Aaron that if they would 
stop their words of intercession he would destroy the Jewish na- 
tion in a moment, Numb. xvi. 21 ; Deut. iv. 24) have perverted 
the words of the living God (Matt. xii. 36). Mark iv. 14 : the 
sower soweth the word. Matt. xii. 37 : By the words thou shall 
be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned, and con- 
sumed in a moment, annihikted. There is no resurrection of the 
rotten body, nor roasting it in pagan Roman Catholic purgatorial 
myth fires of their guilty crazed brains, that adjudged God's saints 
to inquisition tortures, too horrid to even read about in the history 
of the devil deeds of Roman Catholic popes, and their devil army 
of tares, unclean devil spirits ; they burned God's children as 
heretics, because they would not believe popish lies, creeds of 
devils, with human forms, that condemned to torture fires, and 
their myth god they still teach is like the popish inquisitions of 
the dark devil's tare children ruling. 

12.] Were offended. — They were dissatisfied and alienated from 
Christ by his truth words. 

13.] Every plant. — Evil plants, false creeds, perversions of 
God's parable reproofs of the Jews ; all creeds contrary to God's 
statute plain laws of soul and body life and death, plainly stated, 
that by false nryth pagan superstition traditions of men grow up 
as mortal creeds on earth, that contradict God's plain statute laws, 
and have not received from him the root of true and lively faith 
that worketh by love (not hate), do wither away soon or late, 
and are cut off from having any communion at all with God (Matt. 
xiii. 21 ; 1 John ii. 19 ; Jude 12). 

14.] Let them alone. — They are not worthy to be regarded, or keep 
away from them, or they will lead you with their blind myth men 
manufactured creeds to ruin. 

15.] This parable. — Peter speaks thus by mistake, and Christ 
reproves him for it, being not able yet to persuade himself that he 
as an apostle was favored above the priest deluded rebels against 



MATTHEW XV. 223 

God's Scripture laws, that they had perverted by false men tradi- 
tion creeds, and that Christ should speak to his apostles in a 
proper sense, and without a figure. The Jews had been favored 
with God's pure law, without a parable veil, and having perverted 
that, Christ would not again give them pure spiritual intellectual 
mind egg quickening food words of immortal life, to be perverted 
to their flesh blood life mockery of his spirit God Father, who 
alone had immortal life words for the spirit egg minds quickening 
to immortal life, not human blood life sin lust bodies, that he had 
already cursed and adjudged in Eden to death's rottenness and 
earthy elements with a dust refuse : because it would have seemed 
that he did abolish the distinction between clean and unclean 
meats, which was so strictly commanded by Moses. And holding, 
peradventure, some gross opinion touching that which Christ had 
said about proceeding out of the mouth, the same delusions are 
had to-day by those who judge the body that they would resurrect 
from rottenness to judge aud burn if wicked. 

16.] Without understanding. — Spirit birth wisdom light knowl- 
edge to discern God's truths. Are these plain statements of mine 
so difficult that your soul's mind cannot conceive them ? 

19.] Of the heart. — All vices proceed from the blood life lusts, 
appetites, and desires, and the heart is the chit germ of the blood 
life, therefore the nature chit of evil. 

20.] Defileth. — To eat without washing the body hands doth 
not affect the soul's spirit egg mind ; that is, the spirit life immor- 
tal chit germ of intellectual life eternal, which can only be defiled 
by the devil's tare weeds and heart blood life contaminations. 

21.] The coasts. — Into those parts of Judea near Tyre and Sidon, 
which were cities of Phoenicia, situate upon the Mediterranean Sea, 
not far from high Galilee of the Gentiles. 

22.] Of Canaan. — St. Mark calleth her a Grecian of Syrophoe- 
nicia, which was in the confines of Palestine and Syria, and was 
inhabited mostly by ancient Canaanites, who in those days spoke 
the Greek language and adopted the Greek faith, and were brought 
into the country by Alexander, and his successor kings of Syria. 

23.] Answered her not. — To try and sharpen her faith the more. 
Send her away. — Granting her request. 

24.] / am not sent. — My Fathers offer of mercy grace life im- 
mortal by my word's spirit power I must first offer to the nature seed 
of Abraham, which if they reject, then the Gentiles, conditional 
with compliance reception of my truth words of promise they have. 



224 MATTHEW XV. 

25.] Lord, help me. — That is direct prayer to God for help 
through Christ, if of faith they are healed. 

26.] Meet. — Good to take spirit born children's spiritual intel- 
lectual immortal life food, and give it to mere blood life mortal 
pagan false creeds of wicked men's manufacture, they in their 
human nature unspirit born state are but as dogs in their false re- 
ligions and customs, in respect to the people of God spirit born of 
truth's spirit word life immortal, who alone can feed on spirit life 
intellectual food. 

27.] Truth, Lord. — A confession of her uuworthiness, not to be 
quite put off without any hope, as the incorrigibly wicked are, but 
to draw on the consequence of a more fervent invocation, joined 
with a deep humility and reverential petition. 

28.] Great is thy faith. — Christ heard this woman for her faith's 
sake, and not for the saying of the apostles, who would have sent 
her away ; thus every penitent must not rely wholly on the prayers 
of the righteous, but each must earnestly plead for themselves. 

29.] Unto the sea. — Or the lake Gennesaret, called by the name 
sea at that time. 

31.] Glorified the God. — It being the spontaneous praise of 
well doing to nature life. 

32.] Three days. — In which time it is likely they had spent 
all the provision which they had brought with them, and then they 
had lingered still until they were in great want of nature food. 

33.] To fill. — The disciples not long before had seen the miracle 
of the five loaves and two fishes, yet notwithstanding they thought 
no more of it. For this vice is so rooted in human nature corrup- 
tion, that the remembrance of benefits God bestows upon us doth 
soon vanish as smoke. 

34.] How many loaves. — Christ would have his disciples know 
"and confess, that what they had was not sufficient for the people, 
except his expansion power was showed in it, to increase greatly 
the quantity. 

36.] Gave thanks. — By this word is meant the same act of piety 
before a meal, that is called blessing ; it is not improved by asking 
with vocal words, instead of mental soul mind desire for God's 
blessing on the temporal nature food, nor for spiritual intellectual 
food, for the new creature life immortal food ; Matt. xiv. 19. Both 
nature and spiritual food come from God, the source of all life. 

37.] And were filled. — The goodness and bounty of God showeth 
itself in Christ, which bestoweth more upon men than they either 



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expect or hope for when they have received spirit birth, and abide 
holy in the ark. 

39.] Magdala. — It is situate upon the shore of the lake of 
Gennesaret. 



Chapter XVI. 



1.] Pharisees. — Although the Pharisees and Sadducees differed 
in doctrines, or men creeds, yet agreed as to-day in various Babel 
creeds of men : agree well enough in opposing gospel truths of 
God ; and because the masses, or a large majority of all Adam's 
race, who embrace any kind of creed form the large masses of 
civilization and religious truthful and absurd irrational creeds 
wholly void of truth, therefore they argue they must be right, 
because they all agree in the false doctrines of Babel creed builders. 
Thus they argued against our Lord and his disciples that they 
were warring against the creeds of men, held sacred by all God's 
chosen people, therefore the Lord must be wrong, and their false 
way right, tempting. — Not with any upright intention to be 
instructed and confirmed, but to make a temporary essay of Christ's 
power ; whose ordinary miracles they did vilify as much inferior 
to the ancient miracles of Moses, Joshua, Elijah, and other pro- 
phets. A sign. — They could neither disparage his life nor doc- 
trine, therefore they will give him out for an impostor if he did 
not prove himself to be the Messias by some extraordinary sign. 

2.] When it is evening. — He concludeth by this similitude that 
they ought to acknowledge the time of their visitation was come ; 
the kiugdom of Christ being pointed out unto them clearly by 
many clear and evident tokens. 

3.] Ye can. — Though the conjecture of the future temper of 
the air be of itself very uncertain, yet men by long experience 
have observed certain natural signs, which do seldom fail. Why 
do you not then use the same industry to gather the signs of the 
Messias coming, given by the prophets, by the succession and ter- 
mination of the times, in John the Baptist's preaching, in the 
properties and circumstances of my coming, and of my works and 
doctrines of truth ; if so be you desire to be cleared of it ? But all 
that you do is nothing but hypocrisy and malice. 

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5.] They had. — They found out then that they had forgotten. 

6. J Leaven. — Corruption. 

7.] They reasoned. — As wondering ; or, they argued, as laying 
the blame upon one another, doubly erring : First, because they 
thought Christ had forbidden them to make use of the same bread 
as the Pharisees did. Secondly, in mistrusting Christ's power. 

8.] Why reason ye. — \Vhy are you careful for nature blood life 
bread, and forget my miracles ? 

12.] Doctrine. — Men must be careful to avoid all false and 
wicked doctrines of men manufactured creeds, contradicting plain 
statute laws of Grod's Scriptures. 

13.] Philippi. — This is set down Cesarea Philippi, to distin- 
guish it from Philippi near the Mediterranean Sea. 

14.] John. — Risen again from the dead (Luke ix. 7, 8). 

17.] For flesh. — No human light, understanding or virtue, 
which is in thee or any other mortal, and even all the prayers of 
all the inhabitants on earth, could not impart spirit birth to one 
mortal ; nor immortal life spirit revelations. Thus oftentimes it 
is called in Scripture all that is in man by corporal generation 
(unspirit born of Grod). And that proceedeth from him through 
his own pure natural beginnings and strength ; which without the 
work of regeneration of Grod's spirit are in regard to spiritual and 
heavenly things like unto a body without a soul light, under- 
standing, and motion. Flesh with its blood life is full of sin lusts 
and appetites, and is unholy, and is sentenced by the Sovereign of 
the universe to utter annihilation death, void of all life germs, and 
doomed to rottenness. A resurrection of rottenness stench is all 
that can possibly rise from a mortal sin lust begotten grass body 
(Isa. xl. 7). 

18.] I say also. — I declare unto thee that as I have given thee 
this surname of Peter (John i. 42 : Cephas, a stone by interpreta- 
tion, or Peter, from petros, a stone), for a sign of the steadfast- 
ness of faith which I will grant thee. Luke xxii. 31 : Satan hath 
desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat. 32 : But I 
have prayed for thee that thy faith fail not ; and when thou art 
converted (spirit born of Christ's spirit seed), strengthen thy 
brethren. I will cause this doctrine, that I am Christ the Son of 
God, this self same faith preached by thee, or declared as your 
views and your associate disciples', in answer to my question, Whom 
say ye that I am ? to be the foundation of my church, the authen- 
tic truth, worthy to be believed as truth, and it must be believed 



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that I am Christ the spirit word, and only begotten Son of G-od, in 
order to be converted. Upon this rock Christ Jesus, the Son of 
the living Grod, I will build my church ; and the gates of hell 
death's grave shall not prevail against it. Now, as Peter had 
spoken in the name of all the apostles, 15: he saith unto them, 
all the disciples, as a class at school learning of Christ the Master 
(xxiii. 10), one answering also as foreman of a jury what their 
verdict was, it is a most wilful villainous perversion of the Scrip- 
tures for the adherents of popery humbug to say fraudulently 
that Peter was the rock on which Christ would build his church. 
Christ's answer belongeth to them all, in regard to their common 
doctrine and equal apostleship. Rom. xv. 20 ; Eph. ii. 20 : And 
are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus 
Christ himself being the chief corner stone. Thus plainly show- 
ing all who falsely say that on Peter Christ was to build his 
church are wilful liars, and antichrist tare seed children of the 
devil (Rev. xxi. 14). The gates. — According to the phrase of 
Scripture, the devil's kingdom, and, as it were, his city of dark- 
ness and lies delusion ; opposing the city of God's eternal truth, 
holiness, and love ; which is his church on earth. All the power, 
rage, and malice liars, blasphemers, nicknamers evil nature are of the 
army of darkness, the devil exerciseth his empire as prince thereof. 
Popery is a Peter man manufactured church. 

19.] I will give unto thee. — That is, I will make thee the stewards 
of my gospel, and of the spiritual goods of my house ; an office 
signified by carrying the keys (Isa. xxii. 22). Rev. iii. 7 : So is 
the doctrine of faith called the key of the kingdom of heaven. 
Luke xi. 52 : And the ministers of the gospel the stewards (Luke 
xii. 42 ; 1 Cor. iv. 1 ; Titus i. 7 ; 1 Pet. iv. 10). Bind.— Simili- 
tude taken from overseers of great houses: Matt, xviii. 17 ; John 
xx. 23. Over the members of the churches to whom they 
preached ; but not as in any way appointing popes or any other 
church and state official, or any other preacher a judge to sentence 
any other persons on earth, nor even their church members, beyond 
expelling such members from their church association ; while blood 
life remained in them, their probations of repentance remained 
open to them. Ezek. xviii. 27 : When the wicked man turneth 
away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and does that 
which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive. But if 
blood life death occurs before he repents, for the iniquity that he 
hath done, his soul shall die. 27 : Although previously a right- 



228 MATTHEW XVI. 

eons man, a preacher, pope, or any other mortal fares the same. 
A reasonable discipline over church members is all the power 
Christ gave to his disciples, Peter, or any other righteous holy 
preacher of the gospel called to the ministry by the Lord. Not to 
tie and captivate their conscience by censures and denunciations of 
God's judgments, and exclude them from the external communion 
of their church by excommunication for their errors ; contrariwise, 
to restore and absolve them upon their conversion repentance ; and 
all this ministerially and declaratively, not by a full power and 
absolutely, but by virtue of the commission which they have from 
God, and the rules which are prescribed unto them by the Scrip- 
tures, God's statute laws ; besides which all actions of the minister 
is void before God, and can neither bind nor free the conscience 
of a man who is well instructed. One may also take the word 
binding for forbidding of a thing as unlawful ; the word loosing, 
for permitting a thing as lawful ; the conscience being tied by the 
interdiction, and loosed by permission. And in these two senses 
shall be jointly comprehended all the ministry of the gospel, which 
eonsisteth in doctrine and in discipline ; and if not wholly in ac- 
cordance with the Scriptures, then their souls, or blood, will be 
required at the judgment of such preachers who wilfully miscon- 
strued God's statute laws, and taught false men creeds, mocking 
God. 

20.] Charged he. — It is certain he did it because he would 
remain unknown for that little space of time which passed from the 
time that he spake these things until the crucifixion sacrifice of 
the spirit begotten woman's nature egg seed blood life body on the 
cross ; and to make as it were a pause of manifesting himself as to 
his spirit word creation power being, which spirit life immortal 
being was manifest in his word promise spoken in Eden, that the 
woman's seed should bruise the serpent's head (the devil, Heb. 
ii. 14). And to give place to the execution of God's prophets 
revelation concerning his rejection and suffering by the Jews, 
which prophecy they wilfully rejected in Christ Jesus ; and would 
thus treat another revelation if Christ had condescended to have 
suffered his apostles to proclaim his spirit Christ spirit word crea- 
tion powers as spirit Son of God, that governed the acts of the 
only spirit word begotten body since his creation of Adam and 
Eve in Eden. 

21.] And suffer. — Hereby confuting the opinion they had of 
his temporal kingdom. 



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22.] To rebuke him. — Driven thereto by his love to Jesus, more 
carnal than spiritual. And through his ordinary fervency, which 
savored of rashness and presumption, and the false hope he con- 
ceived of Christ's worldly kingdom, and the horror of the cross. 

23.] Satan. — A proverbial word used among the Jews, when 
one would reject an evil and pernicious counsellor, who either 
willingly or ignorantly made himself an instrument of the devil 
(2 Chron. xi. 15). An offense. — A disturber and obstructer (as far 
as in thee lieth) of the course of my vocation. Thou savorest not. — 
Peter was a mere mortal then, and a broad way worldly server of 
the devil ; not the rock on which Christ would build his church ; 
Satan, as well as Peter, Jesus called Simon. Luke xxii. 31 : And 
the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold Satan hath desired to have 
you. 60 : And Peter said, Man, I know not what thou sayest. 
Immediately the cock crew. Thus on Peter's mortal fallible evil 
nature, before his spirit birth, Romish popes found their church, 
being founded on the devil ; they preach the same doctrine, Gen. 
iii. 4 : Ye shall not surely die ; therefore they make the incorri- 
gibly wicked immortal in hell. Peter's judgment and affections 
were then but carnal ; groveling as yet with both upon the earth 
and earthly things, and not yet enlightened, nor raised up by spirit 
bii'th to discern God's spirit .truth ways in divine and heavenly 
immortal spirit life. 

24.] Deny. — Let him lay aside all manner of presuming upon 
his own sense and understanding, and forsake all his own desires 
and affections of fallen nature lusts and appetites, and without having 
any regard for himself, should subject himself wholly to God's will, 
and prepare and dispose himself to all manner of earthly insults 
and sufferings for Christ's sake. Thus he reproved Peter for his 
two vices, presumption and fear of afflictions. Deut. xxxii. 4 : 
God is the Rock. 15 : Jeshurun (Peter) waxed fat, and kicked. 
Then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the 
rock of his salvation. 31 : Their (the popish Peter stone), is 
not as our Christ Jesus the Son of God rock ; even our enemies 
themselves being judges. 1 Sam. ii. 2 ; and 2 Sam. xxii. 2, 32, 
47; Ps. xviii. 2, 31, 46; xcii. 15; lxii. 2: God is my rock. 
Ps. lxxxix. 26 : rock of salvation : not Peter or a stone rock, called 
also Satan. 

25.] Lose it. — Blood life is soon lost in death and rottenness. 
Lose his life. — Like a soldier in earthly hell wars : join the spirit 
army of light and love and peril, and, if required, sacrifice blood 

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life in warring against Satan's army of evil falsehood darkness un- 
clean tare seed children of the devil's army. Then in such loss of 
blood life periled for God's Scripture truths, which I here battle 
for, then all such find eternal spirit life unending, in exchange for 
the periled blood life that soon would have died. 

26.] For what. — What benefits can possibly accrue to a mortal 
from all the gold of earth if he owned and possessed it, one minute 
after brief blood life's probation ends ? or if the wealthy mortal had 
the power after blood life death was past, to again make the choice, 
he would quickly give all the gold for soul spirit mind egg spirit 
life immortal seed, or spirit of Christ (Rom. viii. 9). 

27.] Shall come. — Shall appear in his essential glory of the ever- 
lasting spirit word Son of God, which he hath from his Father, by 
eternal generation ; and also in the majesty of king of his church 
spirit born of his spirit life immortal seed of his Father, given him 
through grace word conditional promise, to sow in all spirit egg 
minds, when the she soul (Ps. xxxiv. 2) will door to the mind intel- 
lect egg was unbarred from within by the heart's blood life's conces- 
sion, and judge of the world, bestowed upon him by his Father as he 
is mediator. According to. — His works of faith which worketh by 
love. Gal. v. 6, and vi. 7 : Be not deceived (by men tradition 
false crseds that worship their own bodies, instead of the pagan 
wooden image worship, but with greater mockery of God by making 
him a god of their rotten body grass matter (Isa. xl. 6, 7) and a 
resurrector of them after they had utterly returned to earth's ele- 
ments as it was before it was formed into grass that formed the 
bodies of cattle, and other animals eaten, and grass seeds of wheat, 
etc. Eccles. xii. 7 : Then shall the dust return to the earth as it 
was ; and the spirit to God who gave it, the same as God gives us 
the sunlight ; but the light is not ours ; it returns or abides with 
the sun when earth intervenes ; and also mocking God (who declares 
himself love. 1 John iv. 16 : God is love; and he that dwelleth 
in love dwelleth in God, and God in him), by declaring him the 
resurrector of the dead rotten bodies of the incorrigibly wicked, for 
the purpose of torturing them eternally, in a lake or furnace of fire 
and brimstone, when he clearly states the reverse in all his statute 
Scripture laws ; and his prophet Ezekiel clearly states, xviii. 4, The 
soul that sinneth, it shall die. 27 : When the wicked repent and 
do right before blood life dies, while probation life lasts, he shall 
save his soul alive. 32 : I have no pleasure in the death of him 
that dieth, saith the Lord God ; wherefore turn yourselves, and live 



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ye. Gal. vi. 7 : Be not deceived ; God is not mocked, for whatso- 
ever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. 8 : For he that soweth 
to his flesh, shall of the flesh reap corruption (rottenness is his 
crop). Isa. v. 24 : Their root shall be as rottenness. Dan. xii. 2 : 
Shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to a resurrection of 
rottenness (in the original Hebrew, translated shame and contempt. 
Rottenness (Isa. v. 24) is similar, for rottenness is as shame and 
contempt). Mai. iv. 1 : For behold the day cometh (the close of 
time) that shall burn as an oven ; and all the proud, yea and all 
that do wickedly, shall be stubble (those wicked alive on earth) ; 
and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of 
hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. If Noah 
and his family had been destroyed with the other inhabitants 
of earth, no root nor branch would have been left to propagate 
Adam's seed on earth ; thus, in the fire flood it will be an utter ex- 
tinction of Adam's race forever. 2 Pet. iii. 10 : The earth also, 
and the works that are therein, shall be burned up. Rev. xx. 11 ; 
From whose face the earth and the heaven (earth's atmosphere) 
fled away, and there was no place found for them (in lighted space ; 
they are swept by the judge into outer darkness). Gal. vi. 8 : 
But he that soweth to the spirit (by constant silent prayer faith 
in God) shall of the spirit reap life everlasting. 15 : For in Christ 
Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, 
but a new creature (spirit born of Christ's seed). 



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2.] Transfigured. — The spirit word of God Son appeared to 
the apostles, Peter, James, and John, three witnesses being all 
that was necessary to verify to the truth thereof. John i. 13 : 
Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor 
of the will of man, but of God. 14: The word (spoken). Gen. 
iii. 15 : The seed of the woman shall bruise the serpent's head. 
Heb. ii. 14: He took part (woman's nature egg, not man's seed 
milt) of the same ; that through death he might destroy him that 
had the power of death, that is the devil. The spirit begot body 
was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the 



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glory as of (the appearance of the absence of Jesus' body, and the 
spirit word of God, creation Son of God occupying its place, or 
the soul mind of Christ was begotten by the Father of spirits. 
Heb. xii. 9 : And the Holy Ghost, the spirit body of the Lord, 
appeared to John, Peter, and James, as if the flesh body had been 
abandoned and the spirit body glorified with light beatific like his 
Father's) the only begotten of the Father. No other body in 
human form had been begotten of God's spirit word Son's power, 
nor ever will be thus begotten of woman's nature egg seed. All 
others spirit begotten are by way of that one spirit germ, and by 
way of the intellectual impregnation of immortality through the 
soul's will of blood life, into the spirit egg mind, that receiving 
of God's gospel spirit words of truth, gospel spirit milt, of intel- 
lectual mind belief, and reception of God's immortal spirit life 
seed, by way of Christ Jesus, the only medium and mediator, — 
such are the children of God by way of Christ Jesus. Trans- 
figured, changed from the blood life woman's seed body of nature 
to the reunion of the infinite, in the nature woman's seed blood 
life body soul mind love, with the spirit word spirit Son of Jeho- 
vah, God Almighty, sovereign supreme of the universe, Christ 
Jesus our Lord and Saviour, who occupied a human body he had 
made like Adam's, into which, and through which, he talked with 
Abraham, Gideon, and others, on various occasions. Transfigured 
before them. — The same word used for God's form (Scott's Com.). 
Phil. ii. 6, 8 (Christ Jesus) : Who, being in the form of God (a 
spirit ; John iv. 24), thought it not robbery to be equal with God 
(in love life endless), but made himself of no reputation, and took 
upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of 
men. Christ's spirit begotten will occupy a spirit body after 
blood life nature body death ; in a moment the change will take 
place, so that death of their blood life is but as a shadow darkness 
of death which occurs in the moment of separation of spirit born 
new creature spirit life from nature blood life. 

3.] Moses. — To signify the consent and concordancy of the law 
and the prophets to Christ. It was known to the apostles who 
these were, either by inward revelation, or by Christ's words, or 
some words of their own hearing, from the conversation of Moses 
and Elijah. There is no question but Moses was there in a spirit 
body. Deut. xxxiv. 5 : So Moses the servant of the Lord died 
there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord. 
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with them in his spirit word spirit power creation body, or soul 
mind spirit begotten of the Father of spirits (Heb. xii. 9), the 
Holy Ghost, and his blood life body through which the imparta- 
tion of his infinite spirit love power was demonstrated, and through 
which he proclaimed his parables and sermon on the mount, and 
all his words and acts, was left for the transfiguration obscure from 
the apostles' sight, by way of the spirit glory light. John x. 17, 
18, clearly states the two natures of Christ and Jesus under one 
ruling, superior power. Christ, the spirit Son of God and crea- 
tion power unlimited, and the spirit begotten blood life of woman's 
seed to demonstrate that Adam might have obeyed God in Eden, 
and placing .all souls spirit born in spirit Eden life probation trial, 
while blood life lasts, and to atone as a sacrifice to redeem from 
nature taint from Adam and Eve's fall and death sentence irre- 
vocable as to nature body death, for the sins of all true Holy Spirit 
born believers of truth from God, as the closing and ending eter- 
nally all sacrificial offerings on earth, which had been typified for 
some four thousand years in lamb sacrifices. John x. 17, 18 : I 
lay down my Hie (blood life. Matt. x. 37-39 : He that loseth 
blood life shall find soul mind spirit life by spirit birth holiness), 
no man taketh it from me (viz., if I use my spirit word power I 
could destroy all Adam's sin lust race in a moment), but I lay it 
down of myself (a free-will offering sacrifice for all who are spirit 
born holy, and obedient to his commands of love). I have power 
to lay it down, and I have power to take it again, from death, and 
to raise up the flesh and bones with my spirit life spirit body 
power. 

4.] It is good. — Words of a man in rapture, not knowing what 
he said (Luke ix. 33), quite dazzled with the majesty of this 
beatific spirit life glory, and transported with present joy, which 
he desired to continue in, as do all who are permitted to view the 
spirit life glories, and to avoid the terror of the death of the blood 
life, woman's seed body occupied by infinite love, expanded from 
his spirit word in Eden. Gen. iii. 15 : The seed of woman should 
bruise the serpent's head ; that word of the Lord begot of the 
nature egg, or woman seed in the Virgin Mary, the body of Jesus, 
thus (John i. 14), The word (spoken in Eden, Gen. iii. 15) was 
made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the 
glory as of the spirit word of God creation power o'ershadowed 
.and protected, and was in unison with the word spirit of God, 
and Son of the spirit God, flesh spirit begotten body of Jesus, 

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thereby making it possible that Adam's sin lust begotten race, by 
way of spirit birth from Jesus' spirit begotten body sacrifice in 
their behalf, begets of the she soul spirit egg mind, or intellect, 
the product of the spirit creation breath of lives given Adam, in 
his first breath that pulsated his blood life, a new creature, or new 
spirit life immortal beings allied to God's immortal self existent 
spirit life, that only had immortality through his spirit word 
spirit Son of creation power, and by way of his word promise that 
the seed of woman should bruise, destroy, slay, annihilate, at the 
close of time, the devil and all his seed. Luke ix. 30 : And be- 
hold, there talked with Jesus two men, which were Moses and 
Elias. Clearly showing that they were then resurrected by the 
spirit word spirit creation power Son, whose power was and is ever 
the same, and ever in the present tense : I am the resurrection and 
the life (John xi. 25). Moses and Elias talked in their spirit 
bodies. 

5.] Overshadowed, — Moses and Elias in their spirit bodies ; 
Peter, James and John clearly testify, and also Luke ix. 30, that 
Moses and Elias or John the Baptist was really there, and talked 
with the Lord. Now that truth is as fully stated as any other truth 
in the Scriptures, yet blind guides like politicians with party 
creeds, fearing to be called a heretic, cling to their sect party, with 
sinful denials of truths that overthrow their rotten body resur- 
rection wholly. 1 Cor. xv. 44 : It is sown a nature body, it is 
raised a spiritual body. The same it, that was sown a nature 
body, is raised a spirit body. Phil. iii. 21 : who shall change, 
the same as a grain of wheat is changed by Glod's spirit word, into 
the grass form emblem of the spirit change from the rotten wheat 
grain emblem of the rotten flesh body, and is formed in the head 
chaff cell life chit, where a body is again drawn from nature earth. 
In the same way the spirit born life germ of the soul spirit egg 
intellect mind seed of immortality is at body death of blood life 
formed in the spirit head Christ, its living vine. John xv. 1 : I 
am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. 4: Abide 
in me, and I in you. 5 : Without me ye can do nothing. Phil, 
iii. 21 : Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned 
like unto his glorious (spirit word of Grod creation power) body. 
1 Cor. xv. 37 : Thou sowest not that body that shall be. 

9.] Tell the vision. — After, not before, the blood life sacrifice. 

10.] Why then. — Seeing Elias, who appeared unto us to-day, 
hath again withdrawn himself without showing himself unto the 



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world, how can this agree with the common opinion of the Jewish 
doctors, or D.D.'s, grounded upon the prophecy of Mai. iv. 5 ? 
(Though falsely construed as many Scripture truths by such to-day, 
1871, that he must come to preach to the world before the coming 
of the Messias : shall he come another time or in another manner ? 
or seeing thou art come already, and hast been revealed in glory, 
why do they say that Elias ought to come before thee ?) 

11.] And restore. — He shall serve to convert God's people from 
their evil ways and corruptions both in doctrine and manner of 
living, and shall prepare them to receive Jesus Christ, and thus 
shall establish the spiritual state of the church (Luke i. 16, 17). 

12.] I say. — Christ Jesus here plainly tells his disciples that 
John the Baptist, whom they had seen with Moses that day in 
his glorified spirit body, and whose blood life body head Herod's 
dancing fiend daughter had caused to be severed from its mortal 
body he had come as a forerunner of Christ and baptized unto 
repentance. Matt. iii. 1-13 : And proclaimed Christ Jesus, who 
should baptize with the Holy Ghost and with fire. And gather 
his spirit born children as wheat into his heavenly garner ; and 
will burn up the chaff, the incorrigibly wicked, with unquenchable 
spirit fire of his word curse, Depart from life, or me. Acts xvii. 28 : 
In God we live, etc. Deut. iv. 24 ; Heb. xii. 29 : Our God is a 
consuming fire, and nothing can quench him. In God is life ; out 
of God is death. The same as, out of sun's life light rays soon all 
earth life would die. 

13.] Then. — The disciples then comprehended that they had 
seen the spirit of John the Baptist, his new creature spirit born 
immortality, in his glorified resurrected spirit born new creature, 
or spirit life, in his glorified spirit body, and that they had heard 
him and Moses talk with Christ. 

15.] Lunatic. — By the mere operation of the devil ; or by a 
natural disease accompanied with, and aggravated by, the devil 
possessing the soul mind with his unclean tare seed, or spirit of evil. 

17.] faithless. — It appears by Mark ix. 14 that he doth 
hereby reprove the Jews who contended with the disciples, and 
contradicted their doctrines, as if they could not verify it by this 
miracle. It might also be a general reproof to the father of the 
child, and to the Jews, for their incredulity ; and to the disciples 
also, because that for want of faith in Christ's special promise (Matt. 
x. 1) they had made themselves incapable of doing this miracle. 

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236 MATTHEW XVII. 

miracles, and the promise of God's assistance' to the working of 
them, was not common to all believers, some commentators think ; 
yet the promises of God are not restricted to any one, save that a 
full faith, and in accordance with the declared will of God as 
plainly taught in the Scriptures. Ye shall say. — If you are a 
spirit born child of God, and have God's command and promise 
for it, as Moses had when he wrought his miracles. Or by secret 
holy inspiration it is revealed to your spirit born holy new creature 
in Christ Jesus life, that it is for God's glory, for the salvation of his. 
and for the confirmation of the gospel, as it was to Joshua, or Gideon, 
or Abraham, or the prophets and disciples, then it will be done. 

21 ] This hind. — It seems from this, and Matt. xii. 45, it may 
be gathered that there are some devils, or unclean spirits of evil 
soul miasma assailants, are more malicious and obstinate than 
others. And others believe that the difference consists only in the 
more or less faith power that God doth grant them. By prayer. 
— Not by a transitory act of faith ; but by a long and persevering 
exercise of secret faith prayers, and holiness previously, then in- 
stantaneous God gives victory over the most powerful rebellious 
enemy. Faith desiring God's power by prayer, and prayer being 
inflamed and purged by fasting, feeding the soul instead of the 
body with power food from the spirit vine Christ, and his Father's 
vineyard of spirit wine ever new and fresh ; and souls spirit born new 
creature in Christ Jesus holy invigorator. Faith prayers work 
with God if holy and pure, and not contaminated with blood life 
heart desires for self glory ; but ever as a little child that all such 
are in this world. The meaning of fasting is that those seeking 
by secret prayers favors of Gocl should pay no regards to body 
blood life food, and cravings for earthly luxuries, but above them 
desire the spirit power invigorating immortal life spirit food 
through Christ from God. 

23.]* Exceeding. — The flesh blood life heart by nature filled 
with earthly vain glory desires ; unwillingly hearing any exhorta- 
tion to bear the cross of blood life sorrows. 

24.] They that. — The Roman tithe gatherers under the Em- 
peror Augustus, who took what should have been gathered for the 
church as previously for the state. Tribute money. — A coin worth 
four drachms. Doth not. — Is not your Master one of those willing 
Jews that of their own accord pay this duty to the temple? 

25.] Children. — Christ does not free his children from earthly 
obligations. 



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26.] The children, — According to this common reason, I who 
am the Son of God and Lord of the temple should be free ot 
this tribute. But seeing I am not yet known as such, I will pay 
it in order that this people shall not misjudge me. 

27.] Offend. — Give occasion to go back or decline from the 
truth. Apiece of money. — A Greek name for a coin of the value 
of four drachms. For me and thee. — The other disciples were 
perhaps absent or had previously paid, or because the collector 
had spoken only to Peter. 



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1.] The greatest. — The disciples, through spiritual ignorance, 
imagined there would be official titles of nobility in heaven, as on 
this vain earth in church and state. 

3.] As little children. — By way of she soul's spirit egg mind 
womb's new creature in Christ, birth of his quickening life immortal 
spirit word seed of spirit love, in humility, simplicity, fear,innocency, 
docility, helplessness without Christ's aid, etc. (Matt. vii. 25.) Ps. 
xiii. 1,2: nor in ambition of worldly titles, or other vain worldly 
bubble honors of mortals, desiring not to excel one another therein. 
Except ye be converted, and become as little children (not big- 
children popes, cardinals, bishops, D.D.'s, professors, etc.). But 
spirit born holy of the spirit seed of immortal life, which Christ 
Jesus alone can sow in the soul mind spirit egg of the believer of 
his eternal truths, and the faith reception thereof by the spirit egg 
in the she soul mind, as truths, and life eternal from God ; such alone 
are immortal new creature children of God in Christ their spirit 
vine maturing : 2 Cor. v. 17 ; Gal. vi. 7, 8, 15. None others from 
earth enter heaven. 

4.] Humble. — Not proud D.D's, nor other titled nobility, sal- 
aried by church and state, and college-bred professors of note, but 
such as humble themselves like the little child ; helpless by nature, 
and cries for help to the nature parent, and for daily nature food, 
and is wholly helpless as in its own strength to obtain nature food. 
Thus dependent on God, in Christ, is the new creature spirit born 
child of God in Christ, the spirit vine in maturing, and utterly 
helpless to obtain immortal spirit life food. 1 Tim. vi. 16 : God 



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who only hath immortality ; dwelling in the light which no man 
(only spirit born holy children of Grod in Christ) can approach unto. 

5.] One such. — Spirit born (John iii. 5, 6 ; Matt. xiii. 37, 38), 
a true Christian child of God, that shall have laid aside all worldly 
pride, and its tinsel or titled adornings of vain nature pride vanity ; 
for mortals by nature have nothing to be proud of ; the earth and 
all things thereon or therein are the Lord's, for he made them, and 
is the lawful owner thereof. And for this righteousness cause the 
spirit born holy humble child of Grod in Christ Jesus is become 
abject in the sight of the wicked. 

6-] Offend. — In despising, hating, or slandering, nicknaming, 
or wronging them, for their simplicity of childlike humility, and 
shall thereby have disturbed him in the course of his heavenly 
vocation and holy disposition, and caused him either to take evil 
counsel and forsake Christ, or be discouraged in the heavenly 
narrow way of holiness. A millstone. — That would sink his body 
and end his blood life of sin. 

7.] Woe. — Infinite evils shall come upon the world because 
of offenses, as well upon offenders as those who are offended by 
their vile ways of sin. It must needs be. They are inevitable by 
reason of the malice, weakness, inconstancy, and other vices of 
mortals. And by reason of God's providence, which suffereth 
them either for judgment or trial. And yet mortals' errors shall 
not hereby be excusable, seeing they wilfully commit the evils with 
delight, and voluntarily. 

8.] Cut them off. — There is nothing earthly so precious to blood 
life, to which Glod's spirit life righteousness ought not to be preferred, 
when the soul's new creature spirit life is endangered thereby. 
Blood life was sentenced to death on the first judgment day in Eden. 

9.] Hell fire. — Grehenna fire : a Hebrew word which signifieth 
the valley of Hinnom, which was a place near Jerusalem where 
idolaters did burn their children to their myth god Moloch, where- 
upon by reason of the cruelty of this idolatry the same name was 
attributed to hell (2 Kings xxiii. 10). Isa. xxx. 33 : Tophet is 
ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made 
it deep and large ; the pile thereof is fire and much wood. The 
breath of the Lord (curse) like a stream of brimstone doth kindle it. 
Jer. vii. 31 : They have built the high places of Tophet, which 
is the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and 
daughters in the fire ; which I commanded them not, neither came 
it into my heart. 33 : And the carcasses of this people shall be 



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meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth ; and 
none shall fray them away. Isa. lxvi. 24 : And they shall go 
forth and look upon the carcasses of the men that have trans- 
gressed against me. For their worm shall not die, neither shall 
their fire be quenched. And they shall be an abhorring unto all 
flesh. 23 : From one new moon to another (Mai. iv. 1 ; Isa. v. 
24 ; Dan. xii. 2 ; Gen. iii. 19 ; Eccles. xii. 7 ; Obad. 16). 

10.] Take heed. — He urgeth the cause of offenses, self pride 
and contempt of inferiors, taking glory to themselves as titled offi- 
cials, to lord it over the lay members, whom they would lay under 
taxation to support their lording it over God's heritage, instead of, 
as clearly stated in Rev. xxii. 17 : And whosoever will let them 
partake or take the water of life freely. 1 Pet. v. 3 : Neither as 
being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock ; 
feeding them, not fleecing them. Little ones. — Vile and abject in 
the sight of the world, in their condition or profession. Their 
angels. — The meaning is that men ought not to contemn poor be- 
lievers, seeing God hath so far honored them as to give them his 
own angels to be their guardians and ministers (Heb. i. 14). Who 
assist in God's presence, and are as it were his household and or- 
dinary servants, which is signified by seeing the face of a king 
(1 Kings i. 8, 9-49). 

11.] For the. — Another reason why those poor believers ought 
to be honored, namely, because God hath made them partakers 
of his glorious salvation (James ii. 5). To save. — We must not 
then by our offense destroy what is so dear unto him. 

12.] How think ye ? — He showeth another cause of the contempt, 
especially the pharisaical, because that the believers are poor con- 
verted sinners. Now, saith he, that ought not to make them to 
be less esteemed, seeing that Christ came expressly for such, and 
that God's glory and the joy of angels is the greater for it. 

14.] Should perish. — It is not God's lack of protection to all 
who obey his commands, and abide in the spirit vine provision sus- 
tenance, or spiritual food ; he never leaves nor forsakes them, but 
they can leave and forsake him (Ezek. xviii. 24, 27). 

15.] Shall trespass. — By personal offense, nicknames, or by 
giving of scandal secretly, betwixt him and thee (Luke xvii. 3). 
Hear thee. — Thy just complaints, to confess his fault and amend 
it, or to give glory to God, and promise repentance and conversion. 
Gained. — Thou hast brought him again to his duty, and hast won 
him to be a good brother to thee (James v. 20). 



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16.] Take with thee. — That the reproof may be greater, these 
men seconding it ; and also because that if the offender be stub- 
born, the relation which thou shalt make thereof to the church may 
be the better verified. But no license is given for preachers to cry 
heresy, because they held to the Lord instead of false church creeds. 

17.] Unto the church. — With which such persons are recorded as 
members (1 Cor. v. 3, 4; 2 Cor. ii. 6), according to the Jewish cus- 
tom in their synagogues. As an heathen. — Hold him as a profane 
man, not worthy to commune with the pure in heart, as publicans 
and heathens were among the Jews (Matt. v. 46 ; Luke xv. 2). 
If all the church associations were on the narrow way to heaven, 
with the Bible as their only confession of faith, discipline and 
guide, and all who would not obey its laws and precepts were ex- 
cluded from communion with them, priest or lay member, and all 
on a level, and the Lord God only exalted, then they would 
sweetly rejoice in love and peace and harmony. 

18.] Ye shall, — You ministers and governors of the church, 
proceeding in love, knowledge, uprightness, holiness, and wisdom 
according to the Scripture laws referring to the duty of your 
office. Matt. xvi. 19 : Founded wholly upon Christ, the Son of 
the living God. 

19.] If two. — The meaning seems to be, that in those ecclesi- 
astical judicatures God being called upon in conjunction of spirit, 
without passion or partiality, though his ministers spirit born 
holy be but few in number, and are really and truthfully called 
and commissioned by him, though of little or no authority in 
worldly power, or esteemed by the wicked in power, yet he will 
assist them by his spirit to do such things as shall be in accord- 
ance with God's will and revealed Scripture laws, as shall be 
ratified in heaven. And this likewise may be understood gener- 
ally of the concord and love and charity necessarily required in 
all those that pray unto God concerning one and the self-same 
thing (Matt. v. 23, 24 ; 1 Pet, iii. 7). Any thing. — According 
to God's will, in accordance as well in the thing itself, as touching 
the manner of asking it (1 John iii. 22, and v. 14). 

20.] In my name. — By my authority and commission, spirit 
born new creatures in Christ Jesus (2 Cor. v. 17). Gal. vi. 15 : 
Such child] en of God in Christ calling upon me through faith 
holy with a resolved purpose to do me honor as their spirit Father, 
in accordance with my revealed will and statute Scripture laws. 
Am I. — By my grace and spirit word life rays that ever beam 



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forth in all God's children, who alone have the spirit of Christ 
(Roin. viii. 9), and the promise of resurrection at body death. 

22.] Seventy. — Without any limitation, that we may always be 
ready to forgive as God is ready to forgive us, when truly penitent, 
and blood life probation pulsates. 

23.] The kingdom. — God's spiritual government in his church 
re-established by the Messias. Take account. — He declares by 
this similitude the result of what he had formerly said, touching- 
mutual reconciliation, that we must forgive if we expect to be 
forgiven. 

24.] Ten thousand talents. — This great sum is put as an exam- 
ple of a debt that can never be paid by the poor and destitute 
race of Adam ; only by death of blood life, called the debt of 
nature, that life alone cancels, and the second or soul intellectual 
mind death. Gen. iii. 19 : Dust thou art, and to dust thou shalt 
return, ends the sentence of blood life death pronounced on our 
first parents, and their sin lust begotten rebel race on the first 
judgment day in Eden. The second death, or soul death. Ezek. 
xviii. 4, 20, 24, 27 : The soul that sinneth it shall die. Rev. xx. 
14 : And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is 
the second death, xxi. 8 : Which is the second death. First, 
blood life body death. Second, soul death, which pays the debt 
of nature and grace. 

28.] An hundred pence. — A small sum in comparison to what 
he owed his master. By the throat. — As if he meant to strangle 
him to death, to frighten him to pay him. In like manner, the 
endless hell fire torture preachers would have meted. 

32.] Desiredst. — The bounty and goodness of God is here 
clearly seen, that he is as ready to forgive as we to ask forgiveness 
of him. And the natural mortal unspirit born selfishness. 

34.] Till he should fay. — This is spoken plainly to show that 
he should pay the soul life forfeit death, the same as the nature 
first blood life forfeit death penalty ; and all God's statute laws 
thus clearly state as aforesaid, and by Eccles. xii. 7 : Then shall the 
dust return to earth as it was ; and the spirit shall return unto 
God who gave it. Rom. viii. 9 : But ye (spirit born of Christ's 
seed holy righteous) are not in the flesh (blood life), but in the 
spirit, if so be that the spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any 
man have not the spirit of Christ, he is none of his. Obad. 16 : 
They shall be as though they had not been. Mai. iv. 1 : For 
behold the day cometh that shall burn as an oven ; and all the 
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proud (I fear for many of the titled nobility of church and state), 
yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble. And the day that 
cometh shall burn them up, said the Lord of hosts, that it shall 
leave them neither root nor branch. Matt. iii. 12 : But will burn 
up the chaff with unquenchable fire (Dcut. iv. 24). Heb. xii. 
29 : For our Grod is a consuming fire (unquenchable). Isa. v. 
24 : Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble (Mai. iv. 1) and 
the flame consumeth the chaff (Matt. iii. 12), so their root shall 
be rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust ; because they 
have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and despised the 
word of the Holy One of Israel. (Hear the word of the Lord, 
mortals that send your children to a Moloch god fire, and a heathen 
myth god that resurrects rotten bodies.) 

35.] From your hearts. — The heart is the chit life pulsating 
blood life, that is, by a cheerful free motion proceeding from the 
nature life powers of will. Grod being a spirit and searcher of the 
heart's truthful desires will not be satisfied with words only. 
After your sins (ten thousand talents are forgiven you, 28-30) you 
condemn and doom your fellow-mortal to endless hell fire's tor- 
tures : you want the one hundred pence and lose all. 



Chapter XIX. 



2.] Healed them. — Those that were sick in nature flesh blood 
life bodies, and impotent. 

3.] Tempting Mm. — Trying to tempt Jesus, but none, not even 
the devil prince and father of unclean spirit tare seed children, 
ever succeeded in doing it, to catch or calumniate, misrepresent 
what he said, either for being contrary to Moses' law of Grod, if he 
reproved divorces, or for favoring and authorizing lasciviousness, 
disloyalty and inconstancy of man, if he had approved of them. 
For every. — Indifferently at the husband's pleasure. 

4.] Have ye not read. — To rectify the abuse he quotes them 
Grod's ordinance, according to which all things ought to be regu- 
lated and reformed. Made them. — He created but one man and 
but one woman, which condemns polygamy, and ordained that they 
should be one and the self-same flesh, which reproves divorces 
(Mai. ii. 15). 



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5.] And said. — He inspired Adam, or in after times Moses, to 
give this instruction and law. Leave. — Gen. ii. 24 : This com- 
mandment, nevertheless, not unbinding children from their obedi- 
ence to their father and mother. 

8.] Moses. — The law of this indissoluble bond of matrimony 
was the first everlasting and inviolable law, and God altered nothing 
therein by Moses ; only seeing your Jewish nation's rebellion in 
the liberty they took in divorcing themselves, he did set down a 
rule for a time in regard to some civil order. But I, who am 
the supreme lawgiver, will now, in the days of grace and of the 
spirit, bring things unto their first state. Beginning. — According 
to God's institution. 

9.] Committetli adultery. — He continues ever bound unto the 
first, for this bond must not be broken at a man's pleasure, but 
from a dancing:, drunken, unvirtuous woman or man. 

10.] If the case. — If matrimony beareth so strict a bond, it is 
better to abstain from it than to come into such a case of neces- 
sity to suffer so many things in a woman as may cause a man to 
repent that he was ever married to her. Spirit born holy persons 
must marry those only that are spirit born and holy, or they are 
like light attempting to mingle and associate with darkness ; one or 
the other prevails, and the carnal lusts of nature are most likely to 
ruin both, and like Herod's daughter dance to gratify evil lust 
nature, and the righteous, like the holy Baptist John, are endan- 
gered by the devil's dancers. Divorces are but a partial relief from 
the sorrows and disgrace of a dancing wife ; a dancing wife di- 
vorced will still follow after the husband's rich relations for 
plunder. 

11.] Cannot receive. — They have not the gift of continency by 
God's special grace, that they can be without the use and remedy 
of matrimony. 1 Cor. vii. 2, 7 : For I would that all men were 
even as I myself (a bachelor). 9 : But if they cannot contain let 
them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn, the curse 
disease, 16. 

12.] Have made. — Who have made a firm resolution, grounded 
upon the feeling and firm persuasion of God's gift, to abstain from 
all knowledge of women ; unless the offspring is vastly better than 
the masses of impudent children now germinating into human 
form, the sooner the rebel sin lust begotten race is ended the 
better ; were it not for the very few, that of the vast multitude 
shun the broad way of hell dances, and divorce hell fire ungovern- 



244 MATTHEW XIX. 

able lusts, full of sin and evil nature lusts gratifications, that like 
drinking increases the desire for more, for to keep an undefiled 
holiness, and from the use of matrimony to employ himself freely 
in God's service, either in a public or private calling. 1 Cor. vii. 
32 : He that is unmarried careth for things that belong to the 
Lord, how he may please the Lord. That is able. — Let every one 
examine himself what gift he hath from God, and let him carry 
himsel; accordingly. 1 Cor. vii. 7, 9 : Seeing this gift is not com- 
mon to every particular man, therefore marriage is not rashly to 
be denied a man's self. 

13.] Put his hands. — Blessed and commended them to God by 
his prayer. Rebuked them. — As importunate and respectless 
people, requiring of Christ a thing which seemed too base and 
mean in the apostles' false judgment. 

14.] For of such, — That seek God through Christ before sin's 
vile bundle of evil habits are formed ; so far are you deceived in 
thinking that children, by reason of their weakness, and other 
contemptible qualities, are unworthy to be presented unto me, that 
contrariwise nobody is capable of my heavenly kingdom, unless 
they be first by the spirit of regeneration brought into a spiritual 
state like unto that of a child in the order of nature. Matt. xiii. 
37, 38 : The spirit birth truth impregnating immortal ife seed 
Christ alone can sow from spirit life of God, who only hath im- 
mortality, and dwelleth in life eternal light, which none of Adam's 
sin lust begotten seed can approach unto ; it is all irrevocably 
sentenced to death and annihilation as to life. John iii. 6 : That 
which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the 
Spirit (God in Christ, spirit life holy seed of immortal spirit life 
child of God) is spirit. Like begets its like, is God's law of his 
universe. 5 : Jesus said, Except a man be born of water (re- 
pentance tears) and of the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom 
of God. 7 : You must be born again ; the young child at years 
of discretion choice has a spirit soul egg mind intellect, and much 
more readily conceives the immortal life gospel word of God truth, 
spirit life seed, than the old and vicious, with a diseased mind, that 
first has to be restored to a healthy belief, and freed from its false 
men tradition creeds of pagan popery and evil habits, and through 
much hard seeking humility, and striving with all their soul heart 
mind blood life strength, then by grace of God they become spirit 
born new creatures in Christ Jesus ; but the young have the Lord's 
promise, Prov. viii. 17: I love them that love me; and those 



MATTHEW XIX. 245 

that seek me early shall find me. None can with Babel men 
creeds, or rotten Babel slime bodies, reach heaven. Spirit born 
and spirit resurrected at blood life death only reach heaven. 

15.] Laid his hands. — As a token of his blessing, whereby it 
appears that the children of spirit born new creatures in Christ 
Jesus (2 Cor. v. 17) ought not to be excluded from the Lord's 
covenant. Water baptism. 

16.] What good thing. — He thought by some benevolent act 
perhaps he might obtain eternal spirit life of the Lord, and con- 
tinue the sensual blood life recreations and gratifications of 
appetites, lusts, and desires. Spirit birth new creature spirit life 
immortal he had no knowledge of. 

17.] Why callest thou. — The sense wherein thou qualifiest me 
to be good is not that in which I ought to be acknowledged and 
honored in the blood life woman's seed body nature ; human and 
moral goodness cannot make me a lawgiver to men's soul spirit 
intellect egg minds, unquickened by immortal spirit life, which 
the supreme Sovereign of the universe alone can bestow, for he 
alone is the self existent fount of all life source, and he alone hath 
immortal life to bestow. If thou tuilt. — The Lord speaketh not 
this to remit him again to his own works, by which no man can 
be justified nor saved. Good works are the fruits of the spirit 
birth holy pure children begotten of God (Rom. iii. 20 ; Eph. ii. 
8, 9 ; 1 Tim. i. 9. Titus iii. 5), but to draw him again to the 
service of God from those traditions of men false Babel creeds, that 
seek to build a Babel tower to heaven in their peculiar self right- 
eous way, which pervades all the churches on earth this day in 
varied degrees of soul mind darkness, and false myth delusive God 
mocking creeds; as the pagan, Roman Catholic, reformation 
preachers, Calvin, Luther, and their compeers, who were all 
Roman Catholic preachers, and believers taught by popish priests 
and trained in childhood's second nature by Roman Catholic 
parents and surroundings of the dark ages of inquisition fires, 
previous to the reformation in part only, for much of their doc- 
trinal men tradition creeds are Roman Catholic pagan creeds to- 
day ; as regards eternal fire tortures, and resurrection of rotten 
bodies, etc. Rom. x. 4 : Christ is the end of the law for right- 
eousness to every one that believeth ; and if they truthfully believe, 
they will obey him, and not grab their neighbor by the throat who 
owes them one hundred pence, and if they could roast him in 
endless torture. 



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20.] All these. — Words of a lying arrogant hypocrite, and one 
that was ignorant of the true spiritual sense of the law which re- 
quireth of man not only the external discipline of manners and 
actions, but purity and righteousness in all his thoughts, internal 
motions and affections of the heart, soul, mind, and strength, which 
can only be consummated by spirit birth of Christ's spirit seed, sown 
in the soul's spirit egg mind intellect, and the brooding baptism of 
the Holy Spirit dove, and the fire spirit baptism that consumes all 
the previous false creeds of men, and then in new creature life 
birth, with the spirit of Christ can they truthfully believe and 
comprehend the Scripture truths of God (Rom. vii. 7-10). 

21.] If thou. — An answer fitted to this man's vain boast. The 
meaning is, if what thou sayest of thy perfect observing each com- 
mandment be true, show it in thine obedience to the summary of 
the law, which is, love God above all things and thy neighbor as 
thyself. Perform the first in following of me who am the true 
Immanuel, as he had signified. And the second, in giving thy 
goods to the poor ; and if thou wilt do neither, thou showest 
thyself to be a hypocrite in all the rest, — a pharisaic outside 
moralist. 

23.] That a rich man. — Whose affection for riches occupies 
his heart blood life time wholly, and impregnates his soul's spirit 
egg mind intellects, and produces a worldly spirit creature that 
makes a god of wealth, and worships and clings to it with a miserly 
grasp, for they that love silver shall not be satisfied with silver, 
nor he that loveth abundance with increase. Give such men as 
Astor, Stewart, Vanderbilt, and others of their absorbed mind love 
for millions, with which they burden themselves, and soon have 
to leave every farthing for which they toil, and reap only a rotten 
body. Gal. vi. 7, 8 : Be not deceived. God is not mocked ; for 
whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that 
soweth to the flesh (blood life's earthly aspirations) shall of the 
flesh (blood life treasures) reap corruption (rottenness). And all 
their root adhesion is rotten. Isa. v. 24 : Their root shall be as 
rottenness, and their blossom (earthly glory, praise of poor earth 
worms, Job xxv. 6) shall go up as dust, not as spirit ; but he 
that soweth to the spirit shall of the spirit reap life everlasting. 
I hope all those named will, before blood life dies, sow to the 
spirit. 

24.] For a rich num. — Neither can be done, but by miracle, 
that is beyond the order of nature ; the other by a superabundant 



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and singular power in the order of grace, to preserve or heal the 
rich man of those vices or follies which a superabundance of 
worldly goods brings forth or accompanieth, — great cares, and anxie- 
ties, and avaricious desires, that grasp the property of their 
fellow mortals, when they by their fallible laws do so safely, to add 
to their millions. How devil like the desire to grasp the means 
of sustenance from the poor and needy, instead of bestowing from 
their abundance upon them ! Their superior talents seduce their 
neighbor to part with his small savings to their gains by well laid 
traps, sales of land, and large payment, soon after they paid all 
they have, and then foreclose and drive their helpless families into 
the streets to seek a home, or the poorhouse ; and the sharp 
practiced swindling trickster, the devil's tare children of this 
world, applauds. 

25.] Who then. — The disciples had perhaps heard that their 
national Jewish ancestor, Abraham, was wealthy, and Job, David, 
Solomon, and many other noted, and previously by them, counted 
holy men of God ; and if they were to be excluded from heaven, 
who then can be saved ? 

26.] With men. — Looking only upon the outer man as mortals 
can only do, this would seem a paradox. But with God. — Who 
sees the blood life heart desires within, and the state of the soul's 
spirit egg mind intellectual desires and aspirations, with him it is 
possible and .easily comprehended. Without God's special grace 
no man can be saved. Eph. ii. 5 : By grace ye are saved : even 
when we were dead in sins God in Christ's spirit life seed quick- 
ened, by impregnating our soul's spirit mind egg with God's im- 
mortal spirit life in Christ, and thus together with Christ, we 
become of God who only is self-existent and immortal spirit life 
unending immortal, by way of spirit birth. Thus Abraham, Job, 
David, and others above referred to, placed their riches under the 
control of God to whom they all belonged, for the earth and all 
its treasures of gold and silver are his, for he created or made 
them for a purpose known to himself, and to mortal rebel men 
he hath not to render account. With God's grace spirit birth, 
rich men may become immortal ; but riches that occupy their soul 
spirit egg mind intellects, as ordinarily being full of worldly love 
cares not, feeling the necessity of God's grace and assistance ; ene- 
mies to the cross, proud, insolent, and made drunk with their tem- 
poral happiness, and idolaters to their gods, etc., rooting their 
hearts' blood life desires in them, and grounding their love thereon 



248 MATTHEW XIX. 

through confidence ; vices which are incompatible with those holy 
meek love dispositions which are essentially necessary to obtain 
spirit birth's eternal life. Are possible. — Grod can so dispose the 
heart of a rich man, that he shall not set his affections upon 
riches. Riches held without the affections being placed thereon 
are held in store only against the attacks of adversity, and for the 
purpose of doing good to those who need aid like Joseph's grain 
in the famine in Egypt, which saved the lives of his father and 
brothers and the Egyptians. All Adam's race are by nature carnal, 
their affections are supremely selfish, and full of lust desires and 
sins of various earthly natural tare seed growths of evil. 

27.] We have. — We have done that which this young man 
would not do. Here appeareth the ordinary defect of all mor- 
tals unspirit born, also of the apostles in these beginnings, to 
have always respect to worldly rewards. Shall we have. — It was 
great indiscretion to demand the triumph before the warfare is 
performed. 

28.] In the regeneration. — Your soul mind intellect spirit egg 
is now being impregnated by spirit truth words of heavenly wis- 
dom seed of spirit life immortal, from the Sovereign of the uni- 
verse, and Father of all spirit born holy immortal spirit beings ; and 
in the spirit life immortal, upon which you will fully enter at 
blood life death, when all things appertaining to your heavenly 
estate shall develop all things new ; or in a new spirit life un- 
trammeled by the warring blood life's opposition carnal appetites, 
and earthly animal lusts, that war against the spirit life, and settled 
in everlasting state, as it was and will be to you, new heavens and 
new earth. 2 Pet. iii. 13 : Wherein dwelleth righteousness ; not 
the wicked and wickedness of the old carnal earthy flesh blood life 
beings, but spirit bodies like the angels of God. Luke xx. 36 : 
Thereby correcting his apostles for their coveting worldly great- 
ness. Judging. — According to your measure, and under me you 
shall be made partakers of the glory of my kingdom, and raised 
up in a degree of glory above the common sort of my church, 
signified by the twelve tribes (Dan. i. 3 ; Luke xxii. 28, 29 ; 
1 Cor. vi. 2 ; Rev. ii. 26). 

29.] An hundred fold. — In spiritual goods infinitely more ex- 
cellent than temporal ones, in true and full contentment of spirit, 
as it were in full abundance, and also in the charitable communion 
of believers in the church. Although this be not according to 
the worldly value of goods, yet notwithstanding your peace of 



MATTHEW XX. 2*9 

mind, and sure prospects of everlasting life, and love obedience to 
God, whom you love, and are of a hundred fold more value to 
you here than a brief life of unsatisfying anxieties with no hope 
beyond the grave ; seeing with it they have God's blessings and 
peace of conscience. 

30.] But many. — Take no advantage because you are first called 
to follow me, and have begun well ; you must persevere unto the 
end, otherwise you shall fall from your prerogatives (Gal. iii. 4 ; 
Rev. iii. 11). 



Chapter XX. 



1.] The Mngdom. — God's calling and distribution of his grace 
in the spiritual regeneration and calling, and the distribution of 
his grace in the spiritual state of his church, is such that he often 
makes equal, and prefers to give rewards to those that were called 
last (the Gentiles). To the first (the Jews), whether it be out of 
his absolute free will, or from the reason of their rejection of Jesus 
as their spiritual high priest king and mediator, or for some other 
reason unknown to mortals. And also regardeth not so much the 
beginning as the ending and accomplishment, whereby all human 
glory and contradiction against God is beaten down, and all are 
bound to persevere. By this similitude he confirms that sentence 
set down in the last verse of the jDreceding chapter. 

2.] A penny. — Which was worth a drachm, weighing the eighth 
part of an ounce. 

3.] The third hour. — After the sun was risen, for the Jews 
divided the day into twelve hours : three were the first fourth part 
of a day, or nine o'clock ; the sixth was noon ; ninth, three in the 
afternoon ; eleventh, an hour before sunset. 

7.] Go ye. — The Lord calls into his vineyard some sooner, and 
some later ; Jews first called, then Gentiles. 

11.] They murmured. — Not that there be any murmuring at 
the last day, for this similitude is not to be applied so literally ; but 
that there shall be no cause to murmur, God's free bounty being 
not subject to man's calumny for doing good to such as have not 
deserved it. If God only rewarded the righteous, no sinners could 
be saved ; priests, popes, bishops, and D.D.'s would surely perish. 
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250 MATTHEW XX. 

15.] Evil. — Envious. He takes the eye for the judgment or 
understanding, as if he had said, Art thou envious because I am 
liberal to such as are not worthy of it (Deut. xv. 9 ; Prov. 
xxiii. 6) ? 

16.] Last. — The conclusion is, that every one, though sooner 
called than another, ought more cheerfully to labor and peaceably 
deport themselves, whereby to obtain the reward proposed unto 
them all. For many. — Besides the first reason, that every reward 
dependeth upon G-od's free will, there is this reason also, that it 
is not the external calling and profession of the gospel which 
causeth one to be preferred before the other, but (rod's eternal 
election may have had to do therewith (1 Cor. iv. 7). Matt. x. 
22 : But he that endureth (labors hard, strives for immortal life) 
shall be saved. 

18.] We go up. — With this notice he arms the disciples against 
temptations which might have seized upon them when they saw 
their master's woman's seed, although spirit begotten body, deliv- 
ered up to the last sacrifice for sin, being holy pure spotless Lamb 
of (rod blood life sacrifice, that had been typified for thousands of 
years previous. 

19.] To the Gentiles. — Here the Lord clearly states that the 
Jewish priests and titled men tradition creed officials, instead of 
offering the most holy sacrifice themselves, delivered up the Lamb 
of Grod to the G entiles to sacrifice ; and the bloody war soldiers of 
Rome there were emblemizing the popish Roman Catholic inqui- 
sition tortures of the saints of the Most High, as for centuries 
followed, and with devil malice was perpetrated under the sheep's 
clothing triplicate crown of wolves. Third day. — But on the third 
day morning after blood life sacrifice, my spirit word spirit son of 
God creation power will with spirit power thereof take from the 
tomb the lifeless flesh and bones, which shall not rot and see 
corruption, as all other earthly blood life bodies do that end 
their existence forever, and return to the elements of nature as 
they were before they were formed into inanimate life seeds of 
grass and other animal grass made flesh, and animate life dead 
bodies, which were eaten, and formed the flesh body of mortals. 
Ps. xvi. 10 : Neither suffer thy Holy One to see corruption. 
Acts ii. 27 ; xiii. 35, 36, 37 : he should live and not see 
corruption. The flesh and bones taken from the tomb was void 
of blood life. Luke xxiv. 39 : A spirit hath not flesh and 
bones (clearly proving that spirit life only is immortal). 1 Cor. 



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xv. 44 : lb (the Adamic blood life sin lust begotten bodies, Ps. 
li. 5) is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. Luke 
xxiv. 36, 37 : the disciples, with secret door locked meeting, were 
affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit ; clearly show- 
ing that the body of the Lord was used by his spirit life power to 
convince their mortal eyes and reasonings of his spirit life triumph 
over the devil, that had the power of death (Heb. ii. 14). 

21.] May sit. — Let them have the first degrees of honor in thy 
temporal kingdom, which they apprehend and conceive (Matt. 
xviii. 1). 

22.] Are ye able. — That is, to arrive to the glory of my king- 
dom, you must pass through many combats and troubles, following 
my example. Therefore before you seek after the reward and 
official titled stations, you should examine yourselves how you are 
disposed towards the combat. To drink. — An ordinary Scripture 
term, to signify the afflictions and calamities distributed to each 
one as it were for their portions. Baptized. — This kind of figure 
is taken from the ancient manner of baptizing, Ps. lxix. 2. And 
it perhaps had a relation to the two sacraments of the Christian 
church, which are a sign and token of grace from God, and on 
man's side covenant binding him to imitate Christ ; Jesus was bap- 
tized in earth's sorrows for mortals, that should seek God through 
him unto salvation, and immortal spirit life after blood life's close, 
as he emblemized in his spirit resurrection of the blood drained of 
life body. Each spirit born child of God is baptized with sorrows, 
persecutions. 2 Tim. iii. 12 : All that will live godly in Christ 
Jesus shall suffer persecution. Pharaoh was immersed for his sins, 
and therein died, and all his hosts. Acts xix. 5 : And when they 
heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. 
6 : And when Paul had laid his hands upon them (not like Pharaoh 
immersed in water, but hands dipped in a bowl of clean water), 
the Holy Ghost came upon them ; and they spake with tongues 
and prophesied. 1 Cor. x. 2 : And were all baptized unto Moses 
in the cloud and in the sea (dry bottom). 3 : And did all eat the 
same spiritual meat. 4 : And did all drink the same spiritual 
drink, for they drank of that spiritual rock that followed them. 
And that rock was Christ, not Peter. We are able. — An ignorant 
and presumptuous answer; like D.D.'s of this day. 

23.] Ye shall drink. — Not truly by your own strength and 
power, as you presume at this present time, but by the help and 
special grace of my spirit. Is not mine. — In the quality of medi- 



252 MATTHEW XX. 

ator, in which I do converse here in the world, in a partly nature 
blood life embryo state of sacrifice. I have no charge to give de- 
grees in spirit life glory to come, but only to gain my spirit born 
of my spirit word of my Father's seed children of immortal spirit 
life's salvation. It is prepared. — The honor to sit in God's king- 
dom with Christ is not given for kindred's, sake, or any other by 
respect of persons or titles, but out of pure grace and favor to all 
who comply with God's spirit life immortal proclamation gospel 
conditions. Eph. i. 4 : That we should be holy, and without blame 
in love. 

25.] Dominion. — The domineering desire to lord it over others 
is a sure proof that such self aspirations in church or state are 
tare seeds of the devil, developed into unclean spirit devils ; all such 
seek official positions in church or state ; good preachers or office- 
holders are those that do not seek for the title ; Christ forbids the 
heart's blood life ambition, especially amongst the ministers of the 
gospel. True holiness love piety spurns unholy aspirants. 

26.] Whosoever. — Christ speaks to his apostles (Peter included, 
notwithstanding the pope's triplicate clown cap), as to his ministers, 
telling them that they ought to set all their chief dignity and honor 
not in commanding, as it is in worldly lordships, but in humility, 
and humbly and faithfully serving by diligent search of the Scrip- 
tures the Lord's narrow way, and discarding wholly all theology 
and men tradition creeds, that do not accord wholly therewith ; 
and better still to have no other than the Scriptures for their creed, 
confession of faith, discipline, doctrine, etc. If they cannot say 
thus saith the Lord in his Bible laws and testimony, then be as- 
sured the Lord hath not called him to preach, and he is but a sel- 
fish domineering politician, seeking official station for the loaves 
and fishes, not to distribute their own food, as the apostles did to 
feed the needy hungry blood life bodies; soul food all comes from God, 
and each must ask for themselves. Preachers, like doctors and 
lawyers, are all but poor helps ; and the high officials of church 
and state are but wolves in sheep's clothing, that feed on their flock. 
Though against will and desire, if the Lord calls, go. 

27.] Your servant. — The highest title the Lord God confers on 
any of his church rulers on earth is servant; Mr., D.D.'s, or any 
other fuss and feathers church and state popes, cardinals, arch, or 
starched as in the English Episcopal London archbishop, with 
a many thousand dollar call to eat loaves and fishes as a trade. 

28.] To be ministered unto. — As a king or prince in this world 



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during his abode on earth. Ills life. — His blood life, spirit be- 
gotten of woman's seed nature life egg, that soon would have been 
rotten as all others soon are, that monthly are developed, if not 
quickened into life by Spirit of God power or by way of male life 
milt seed, which Job illustrates. Job xxv. 5 : The stars are not 
pure in G-od's sight. 4 : How then can man be justified with God ; 
pr how can he be clean that is born of a woman (they cannot in flesh 
birth, John iii. 5)? 6 : How much less man, that is a worm, and 
the son of man which is a worm, which dieth not, nor is his fire 
consuming power quenched. For many. — All, whosoever will let 
him take the water of life freely, Rev. xxii. 17. All who are spirit 
born from Christ's seed, and have his spirit (Matt. xiii. 37, 38; 
John iii. 5). Rom. viii. 9: If you have not the spirit of Christ, 
you are none of his. 

31.] Rebuked them. — Disdaining their condition ; or in regard 
to Christ to whom they imagined them to be troublesome ; or being 
offended ; or being offended at the exalted name of Lord, which they 
gave him, and as honorable in descent from David in woman's seed 
nature egg blood life development. Have mercy on us. — Praying 
in earnest. 

34.] Followed Mm. — They became followers of Christ Jesus by 
way of belief spirit birth, and worshipers of God. 



Chapter XXL 



1.] When they drew. — In this approach Christ Jesus would 
show by a solemn manner the nature and condition of his king- 
dom, which is far different from the hell weapons of war noise, 
and the buffoon bubble pomp and pride of this world's rulers of 
self aggrandizement and exaltation ; when each moment of life 
they are poor dependent rebels by nature against the God of the 
universe, on whose miraculously produced expanded spirit word 
food they live. The earth he created, and sustains in its rapid flight 
of over three-score thousand miles an hour in lighted space, lit up 
by his word, Let there be light, and there was light (Gen. i. 3). 
Bethphage. — A borough near to Jerusalem. Of Olives. — A little 
hill on the east side of Jerusalem, planted with olive trees (Zech. 
xiv. 4). 

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2.] Straight way. — At the first coming into the borough, with- 
out going or seeking far. 

3.] The Lord. — I the sovereign Lord and Creator of all things, 
and the source of all nature animate and inanimate life things, by 
way of my spirit word creation spirit life Son of God power given 
me of my Father, the direct and only self-existent from eternity 
past, eternal immortal life imparting sovereign supreme of the 
universe, that for a wise purpose sanctioned in mercy goodness 
love the veiling of infinite love in this woman's seed spirit of 
God begotten body, that now is seen by mortal nature eyes, where- 
with God's infinite justice is to be retained in its purity untar- 
nished in the salvation of all who are spirit born of faith, in the 
atonement I shall soon make, and to show that if I sought earthly 
power aggrandizement I could readily obtain worshipers, and 
above this to fulfil the Scripture prophecy, I will impart suffi- 
cient knowledge of all this to the owner of the ass. Zech. ix. 9 : 
Thy king cometh unto thee; he is just, and having salvation; 
lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass. 

7.] They set him. — Jesus got up : upon the clothes, which was 
at that time a sign of honor, and acknowledgment of a new king. 
2 Kings ix. 13 : Then they hasted, and took every man his gar- 
ment, and put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew with 
trumpets, saying, Jehu is king. 

8.] Strewed them. — A sign of public rejoicing and honor form- 
erly used in those days. 

9.] Hosanna. — A Hebrew word, which signifies, " Save, I pray 
thee;" and is taken from Ps. cxviii. 25. Now because the Jews 
in the feast of tabernacles, bearing branches according to the law, 
Lev. xxiii. 40 : Ye shall take on the first day the boughs of goodly 
trees ; and ye shall rejoice before the Lord your God seven days. 
They used this word Hosanna for an acclamation of joyful prayer 
to God, for the people's safety and prosperity : they did at the last 
call the branches themselves Hosanna. And as it was the custom 
to carry green boughs at the joyful entrances of princes, and other 
public rejoicings. Is he. — Ps. cxviii. 26 : Blessed be he that 
cometh in the name of the Lord. In these acclamations Christ 
was by some acknowledged to be the true Messias sent by God, 
and accompanied by his power, by others as a great prophet. 
In the highest. — May this happiness which we wish thee come 
unto thee from heaven, and from God (Eph. i. 3), or may you 
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12.] That sold. — Things necessary for offerings and sacrifices: 
as beasts, incense, salt, flour, oil, wine, etc., to have them there 
ready for sacrificial purposes according to the Jewish law. There 
were also money changers that exchanged current Roman money 
(Matt. xxii. 19) into Jewish shekels and half shekels appointed 
by law for amercements (Lev. v. 15) for the tribute of each head 
(Exod. xxx. 12), for the redeeming of vows (Lev. xxvii. 3), and 
for other uses. All this was done in the first court called by the 
Gentiles, and the first introduction of those money changers was 
for accommodating the people who worshiped, only for worship 
business ; but afterwards it degenerated into a profane speculating 
merchandizing and avarice (Zech. xiv. 21). Doves. — For offerings, 
most common for poor people (Lev. v. 7, 11 ; xiv. 22 ; Lukeii. 24). 

13.] Of prayer. — So long as the ceremonies according to God's 
institution endured. 

14.] Healed them. — Christ Jesus maintains and defends by 
miracles the power and authority which he had received from God 
his father. No church should be desecrated. 

16.] Hearest thou. — They obliquely tax Christ Jesus as if he 
was ambitious to be praised by the children. Perfected. — Against 
all the oppositions and contradictions of college bred worldly wise 
philosophers of the world, who choose their nature blood life dark 
way, instead of spirit birth truths light and right and only truthful 
way to heavenly immortal life wisdom, eternal in knowledge and 
truthful understanding. Thou hast appointed an assured praise 
for thyself, by the mouth of those that believe in thee ; who are 
like unto, and are little spirit children of God, new creatures in 
Christ Jesus (2 Cor. v. 17 ; Gal. vi. 15 ; Matt. xiii. 37, 38 ; John 
iii. 5). Matt. xi. 25 : At that time Jesus answered and said, I 
thank thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou 
hast hid these things from the (earthly college bred worldly) 
wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto (spirit born new 
creature spirit) babes. 26 : Even so, Father ; for so it seemed 
good in thy sight. Such praised Jesus. 

17.] Bethany. — A borough near Jerusalem, eastward, and near 
the Mount of Olives, where he had raised up Lazarus from the 
dead (John ii. 18). 

19.] When he saw. — Christ knew there was no fruit on the fig 
tree, the same as he also knows there are but few good spiritual, 
spirit born, bearing spiritual fruits on the earth, Christians that 
are sowing to their spirit born soul spirit egg mind thoughts of 



256 MATTHEW XXI. 

obedience, and pure holy love to God, and to all that love him, 
alone reap life everlasting. The holy in blood life heart desires 
are ever ready to defend the right, and war against the wrong ; 
they will ever utter their voice for the spirit birth, clearly stated 
in the Scriptures, and discard all ways of evil, unfruitful in spirit, 
that sow to their fleshly lusts and appetites, at blood life's sudden 
close reap only rottenness. 

21.] / say unto you. — The apostles were astounded with the 
sudden withering of the nature products inanimate life, in silent 
obedience to Christ's command. While they were contemplating 
bis vast word power over nature life, he told them how they through 
Christ's, which strengtheneth me (Phil. iv. 13). 1 Cor. iv. 4 : For 
I know nothing by myself. Matt. xxi. 21 : If ye have faith and 
doubt not, vast mountains of seeming impossibilities Grod's spirit 
born children, through Christ's spirit within them in power, will 
readily remove into the sea of oblivion. 

23.] The elders. — Magistrates and senators. What authority. — 
They conceived that no man ought to take upon him the office of 
a teacher, only by their authority and sufferance ; the same phari- 
saism is practiced in most churches now. 

24.] One thing. — The chief priests and elders of the Jewish 
church, as to-day in most churches, would stop any person, or 
prevent them, or refuse to open their church doors for any person 
to proclaim the message of the Lord, if only commissioned spiritu- 
ally ; and with orthodox pretended righteousness put on the regalia 
of saints, over supreme selfish, self-willed, self-commissioned to 
preach sectarian Babel Grod mocking creeds, made by pagan Roman 
Catholic popery inquisition murderers of as hell's foes, the real 
saints of the most holy Grod of heaven. Thus the Jewish tradi- 
tion priests sought Jesus to entrap him cunningly with devil 
malice pretense. He answers the fools according to their folly 
(Prov. xxvi. 5), by propounding a question that would entrap them 
with the people, and by which his answer might be plainly in- 
ferred and understood. 

25.] The baptism. — John's whole ministry, by the counter 
question the Lord says, Do you believe John was a truthful pro- 
phet sent by Grod ? If you do believe it, why do you not believe 
the witness he bare of me (John i. 15, 27 ; v. 33) ? If not, de- 
clare yourselves openly, as you desire of me. But seeing that 
through base fear of being called a heretic, or not orthodox, while 
you are but hypocrites, believing traditions of men like yourselves, 



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and it would be useless to give you truthful instruction, for from 
your childhood you have been taught false creeds of men, that 
contradict the Scriptures, and mock God's righteousness, good- ' 
ness, love, and mercy,. purity, and holiness. From heaven. — From 
God, according to the Jewish manner of speaking (Dan. iv. 26 ; 
Luke xv. 18). Of men. — Men creeds, false traditions, and with- 
out calling or power from God (2 Pet. i. 21). 

26.] Fear the people. — Hypocrites look more upon men than 
upon God or his truth Scriptures. 

27.] We cannot tell. — They clearly told a falsehood equivocation ; 
they could have told their belief. 

28.] A certain man. — Christ shows by this similitude their great 
hypocrisy, who with their words feign a great zeal towards God, 
comparing them, the Jews, to that son that boasted of doing his 
father's will and did nothing. 

31.] The publicans. — Of which many, after an evil life and an 
open rebellion against God, have been converted at John's preach- 
ing ; whereas you that profess perfect obedience are hypocrites, 
and have withstood John's voice who called you to repentance 
(Lukevii. 29, 30). Go into. — In the spiritual state of the church 
restored by me, they have an advantage superior to you, by virtue 
of their true humility, faith, and repentance, in the participation 
of God's grace, and held in esteem by the church. 

32.] In the way. — John's life, examples, doctrines, and adhesion 
to the Scriptures were so holy and irreprehensible that you have 
had nothing to say against him. 

33.] Parable. — The householder is God, the vine the church 
of Israel, the husbandmen the priests and governors of that church, 
the servants the prophets, the son Jesus Christ ; the meaning is, 
that God had given into the care of the priests his church on earth , 
that the priests had, as many now have, false doctrines and creeds 
of men traditions, that they preached instead of the plain gospel 
truths of God's guidance ; they thereby made themselves as now 
lords of men's consciences, and drawing everything to their own 
profit and glory, acknowledge God no longer, nor their king, not 
giving hio any account, abusing and slaying his prophets ; and at 
last Jesus (himself), whom God had sent unto them from his vast 
throne of beatific spirit glory power, that ruled the boundless num- 
berless to mortals millions of superior worlds, and high exalted spirit 
children, numberless also, and through millions upon millions of 
towering miles, likewise incomprehensible in vastness, and com- 



258 MATTHEW XXI. 

municated with mortals through a medium nature body spirit 
begotten, for the express purpose of destroying the devil that led 
them astray and had the power of death to inflict in serpent poison 
fangs upon blood life bodies and souls (Heb. ii. 14 ; Ezek. xviii. 
4, 24, 27). Digged. — In the earth a solid foundation. And went. 
— This voyage is a figure of Christ's ascent and abode in heaven, 
truly a far country, to mortals innumerable millions of miles away, 
through portals of beatific light. 

41.] He will. — Luke xx. 16: He at the destruction of Jeru- 
salem destroyed them as a nation, and at the close of time when 
he comes and sits in the heavens on his glory white throne, all 
then living on the earth, and all tare seed unclean devils spirit's 
children of the devil (Matt. xiii. 38-40), perhaps most of Adam's 
race then alive, and the devils and fallen angels of all ages past, 
including Jews unrepentant, shall then be utterly destroyed, con- 
sumed, and reduced to annihilation utter as to life in any form. 

42.] Rejected. — As useless or unfit for a corner foundation 
stone. The head. — Of the corner foundation and capstone. This 
stone is Christ Jesus, the foundation and capstone of his spiritual 
temple ; Acts iv. 11, 12 : Neither is there salvation in any other, 
for there is no other name under heaven given among men whereby 
we must be saved. The builders, scribes, Pharisees, and princes of 
the people, from among the publicans, Sadducees, and sinners. The 
five sects or brothers of Dives, but all those builders were dis- 
missed ; and the stone they rejected became as he ever was the 
living stone, that expanded into a living spiritual temple, and is 
still expanding and not wholly completed, nor can it be until the 
last saint spirit born of Christ's seed drops his blood life body, and 
in spirit body soars to meet the then fully and wholly matured 
head and spirit church of life immortal structure. May the Lord 
God soon unite all orthodox churches, and all on earth of his 
spirit seed in or out of any and all churches ! He knows all his 
immortal spirit born of soul spirit e^g minds ; as one let all unite 
soon, Lord, with thy holy Bible as their only creed. Then Bible 
rejectors will remain outside to perish. 

43.] The kingdom. — The spiritual spirit born of God in Christ's 
kingdom have the Lord God for their eternal king. The Jewish 
types and ceremonial sacrifices closed forever, and all natural 
religion. Gentiles receive spiritual regeneration by way of faith in 
the promises word of God, through our Lord Jesus Christ. 

44.] Shall fall. — As I shall be the sound foundation of my 



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church, so will I likewise be an occasion of ruin to all mine ad- 
versaries (1 Pet. ii. 7), whom I will destroy. Powder. — Reduce 
by omnipotent power to utter annihilation ; for without God's aid 
no life can exist. Acts xvii. 28 : In God we live, move, and have 
our being. 

45.] He spake of them. — Hypocrites, though they reject the 
fruit of the doctrine, yet they are inwardly sensible, and pricked 
with what concerns them in it ; but it makes them more fierce 
against it. 

4G.] The multitude. — It is but reason that they which walk 
without the fear of God should always live in fear of men. Prophet. 
— The common people of the poorer class were better affected 
towards Christ than the aristocracy, most esteemed by men of the 
world. 



Chapter XXII. 



1.] By parables, — The Lord Christ had given the Jews 
plainly God's laws, as on Mount Sinai ; but they rejected God's 
Scripture laws plain, for priestly officials false creeds of men's the- 
ology, vised by Pharisee D.D.'s. And, therefore, Christ's love at- 
tribute in the spirit word begotten body, by way of woman's seed 
holy, held its alliance with the spirit word Son of creation power, 
and would not again give anew the gospel truths previously given, 
and discarded for D.D.'s false creeds of vain unspirit born mortals, 
but in parables Jesus talked with them. 

2.] The kingdom. — The meaning is, God the Father, when he 
would establish his Son's kingdom in the world, and make his Son 
head of his spiritual church, joined unto him by an everlasting 
covenant, would first call the Jews to the participation of the 
spiritual treasures, eternal immortality, of which their nature, sac- 
rifices, oblations and ceremonies were but parabolic visions, while 
the spirit birth immortal life goods in Christ Jesus, as those for 
whom they seemed to be prepared, by reason of their ancient pre- 
rogative ; but because they have refused them, he shall punish them 
with total destruction ; annihilation as to life in any form, blood 
life, spirit life, or inanimate nature life, pure or impure. And 
shall receive the Gentile believers of Scripture truths, who accept 
eternal life upon the gospel terms of spirit birth. 



260 . MATTHEW XXII. 

3.] Would not come. — The previously favored Jews would not 
receive spirit birth from Christ Jesus, nor Holy Ghost baptism ; 
all rejecters perish in rottenness. 

4.] Other servants. — To show that God punishes not the con- 
tempt of his grace and word suddenly, but prolongeth in patient 
mercy their life to their appointed probation end of existence ; that 
they may repent if they will, while probation life blood pulsates. 
Ezek. xviii. 27 : Save his soul alive. Are ready. — The Lord omits 
nothing that infinite love could provide, or that belongs to the good 
and salvation of his people. 

5. j To Ms farm. — He shows that they had preferred the goods 
and comforts of the sensual blood life, rather than heavenly spirit- 
ual life immortal, by way of spirit birth. 

7.] His armies. — The same soldiers perhaps that were the mur- 
derers of Jesus were with the Roman army the executioners of 
God's just punishment of the Jewish nation and city Jerusalem ; 
that delivered Jesus through their office-holders of church and 
state sufferance by the same Roman power; and the same evil 
nature devil tare seed spirit that murdered the Saviour pervaded 
the Romish church and -state powers, that was in the Jewish offi- 
cials, as fully developed in the murder of the Gentiles' apostle Paul, 
and for centuries after by their church and state pope Neroes, they 
murdered as heretics all true spirit born holy children of God ; but 
now their state power is gone, and soon their vicious pope power 
will be utterly destroyed. Dan. ix. 26 : And after threescore and 
two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself. And the 
people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the 
sanctuary. Destroyed those murderers. — Who killed his servants ? 
For God severely punishes those that despise and mock his benefits. 
But how horridly do men tradition creeds mock God to-day with 
their endless hell fire tortures of the wicked ! when here, Christ 
God's truth spirit life eternal word declares how God would pun- 
ish the vilest murderers, the vilest sinners earth ever sustained, as 
afore stated. 

8.] Not worthy. — The Jews were first of all Adam's race bid- 
den, chosen, and given God's law. 

9.] Go. — He foretells the second call of the Lord, the calling of 
the Gentiles, who were to be put in place of the Jews. Bid to. — ■ 
Bid to the wedding, the spiritual union of Christ's spirit life im- 
mortal from his Father, with all spirit born of his spirit word of 
God, spirit love life intellectual the soul spirit egg mind impreg- 



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Dating seed. Ps. xxxiv. 2 : My soul shall make her boast in the 
Lord ; thus clearly showing the union with the souls of those who, 
like the female bride, will to receive the man as a husband ; and 
the soul's spirit intellect egg, in the womb mind, is after that im- 
pregnated with Christ's life immortal seed, from his father, in him 
spirit and spirit love, pulsating life immortal. John vi. 57 : As 
the father hath sent me, and I live by the father, so he that eat- 
eth (receives by faith belief his gospel truths, and the soul egg mind 
is quickened and impregnated thereby, thus spirit eating) me 
(love) even he shall live by me : clearly showing it to be a matter 
of life and death, alike of all saints. Such as seek God through 
Christ with all the heart (blood life) receive life immortal ; all 
others receive nothing after blood life's close (Ezek. xviii. 4, 24, 
27). If they repent and seek is the condition, then they save 
their souls alive ; it is a matter of life and death of souls. All 
bodies die on earth. 

10.] Servants went. — The unthankfulness of them that are 
bidden cannot frustrate the use of that holy spirit life eternal food, 
which God hath set before us. Both bad and good. — Indifferently 
worthy and unworthy, as well by reason of their condition, base 
or honorable, as in regard to their goodness or badness : to signify 
that in the assembly of those that are called, which is the external 
church, many hypocrites and wicked men are gathered together to 
hear the gospel preached, w r ith the good and true spirit born be- 
lievers, at the gospel intellectual feast of reason. Christ makes a 
distinction of them, separating from the mystical and internal 
spiritual born holy believers of his church, and from communion 
of his spiritual love feast, those that are unspirit born of his spirit 
love word of God seed, that have not the truth character, and 
spiritual love life immortal love pulsations, as declared hereafter 
(Matt. xiii. 38, 47). 

11.] Had not on. — Had not spirit birth new creature spirit 
life love garments. A frequent figure for the gift of regeneration 
by Christ his spirit, without which no mortal can be Christ's. 
Rom. viii. 9 : But ye (spirit born holy) are not in the flesh, but in 
the spirit, if so be the Spirit of God dwell in you. (A new crea- 
ture, 2 Cor. v. 17 ; Gal. vi. 15 ; Now if any man have not the 
Spirit of Christ, he is none of his : 2 Cor. v. 3, 17 ; Rev. xix. 8.) 

12.] How earnest thou? — Though God bear patiently with 
hypocrites for a time in his church, yet he knows well how to dis- 
tinguish them, not by their outward dress. Lev. x. 6 ; xiii. 58 ; 



262 MATTHEW XXII. 

Joel ii. 13 : Rend your heart, not your garments. Ps. cxxxviii. 
6 : The proud he knoweth afar off. All the race of Adam by 
nature are self proud, and love approbation of their fellow sinners ; 
one takes pride in titles, as D.D.'s, professors, pope, cardinal, 
bishop, elder, Rev., etc., another in rich appendages of clothing, 
robes, etc. Others take pride and claim superior holiness for plain 
dress, as if clothing was godliness. The beggar may be proud of his 
infidelity. All pride in mortals is sin, not outside of the flesh body ; 
each has to decide for themselves. 

13.] Outer darkness. — Outside of lighted space, the last judg- 
ment day at the close of time, those alive on the earth at the 
close of time in flesh blood life bodies gnash with anguish despair, 
and with blasphemy, being of the devil's army of darkness, and 
then sure of defeat and death ; being of the earth earthy: 1 Cor. 
xv. 48 ; Rom. viii. 7. Because the carnal mind is enmity against 
God ; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can 
be. 8 : So then they that are in the flesh (at the close of time) 
cannot please God. Matt. viii. 12 : Outer darkness. Isa. xxxviii. 
18 : They that go down to the pit cannot hope for thy truth. 
Rev. ix. 1 : Bottomless pit. Beneath all lighted space, into inane 
darkness, chaotic darkness of eternal death, that knows no life 
ray of light. 

14.] For many. — Because many that are called do not answer 
to God's call, and that even among those also who do in some 
sort answer, some are rejected because their spirit egg mind is 
full of the unclean spirit of darkness and worldly aspirations, and 
evil natures gross lusts spirits and desires full of envy, malice, 
hatred, and inclined wholly to the broad way life of evil death, 
it clearly appeareth that but few of all of Adam's sin lust seed are 
recipients of immortal spirit life seed from the Saviour, and there- 
from spirit born, John iii. 5. Without which it is impossible that 
they can be immortal in life. 1 Tim. vi. 16 : God only hath im- 
mortality. Are called. — With an outward calling common, as by 
ministers of the gospel ; but there is another, which is spiritual 
calling, which calls upon the heart governor of blood life to sur- 
render to God nature affections and desires and aspirations, and 
to surrender to the soul spirit egg mind intellectual quickening 
spirit life, love seed's spirit blood life, that will pulsate by way of the 
love spirit heart life immortal ; by the spirit of adoption and faith, 
and spirit birth new creatures in Christ Jesus, such alone are chosen 
and saved. 



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16.] Herodians. — Who mixed, as do all mere creeds of men- 
pagan superstitions, and idolatries of human blood life body wor, 
ship, and mock their pagan myth god with their preaching that 
he is a resurrecter of rotten corruption bodies, most of which he 
puts off his immortal life into to punish his own life ; for surely 
the dead rotten matter could not be tortured by fire, or otherwise ; 
absurd mockery myths, with Judaism ; and favored the dominion 
of the Romans, to the oppression of the people ; and were of the 
leaven of Herod (Mark viii. 15). The way. — God's law and 
doctrine, according to which every one ought to proceed and be 
guided. The person. — Whether they be mean or great ones, and 
princes, because that the captious question which they came to 
ask him had a relation to the commanding Romans. 

17.] Is it laiofid? — They referred to the half shekel which was 
by the Mosaic law imposed upon every Jew yearly (Exod. xxx. 13), 
which the Romans had transferred to their capital, to the great 
offense and indignation of the Jews, as well as because it was a 
sign of slavery, ill becoming professed free people of the sovereign 
of the universe. John viii. 33 : We be Abraham's seed, and were 
never in bondage to any man. As also because they held this im- 
position to be a profane sacrilege. Matt. xvii. 24 : The deceits 
which lay hidden under this question were this, that if Christ had 
answered that it was not lawful to pay it, they would have accused 
him and delivered him into the hands of the Roman governor for 
a seditious man (Luke xx. 20). And, on the other side, if he had 
said that it was lawful, they would have disgraced him among the 
people as one that consented to the Romans' tyranny and impiety. 

19.] Show me. — The meaning is, seeing that God hath sub- 
jected you to the Romans, as it appeareth by the stamp of your 
current coin, which is a sign of supreme power, bear it patiently ; 
that doth not any way hinder the service which you owe to God, 
as you profess to be his people (1 Cor. vii. 21) ; and besides, it 
is an easy matter to be obedient to God's commands and Caesar's 
in this payment, which consists in a little sum of money. 

21.] The things that are. — This may have a relation as well to 
the half shekel, which they may pay to God, though they paid as 
much to the Romans ; but chiefly it had reference most assuredly 
to the service of the heart's blood life governor, and true spirit 
birth holiness which God requireth (John iv. 24). 

22.] Went their way. — Wholly overcome and ashamed. 

23.] Sadducees. — They were one of the five sects of the Jews, 



264 MATTHEW XXII. 

or one of the five brethren that Dives the Jew desired Lazarns 
the Gentile to visit ; but the circumcision gulf did not allow a 
communion of Jews and Gentiles in common. The Sadducees 
did not believe in the resurrection to life again of dead rotten 
bodies, that had returned to nature's elements, as it was previous 
to being formed into food for mortals by the command of God to 
earth and water. Eccl. xii. 7 : Then shall the dust return to the 
earth as it was, and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. 
Say that there is no resurrection. — There they greatly erred, 
for Christ is the resurrection and the immortal life from God, his 
spirit word power father ; and the new creatures spirit born of 
Christ's spirit love infinite life seed from God he resurrects from 
their dead bodies when blood life dies. 1 Cor. xv. 44 : It is raised 
a spirit body, by Christ its spirit vine life immortal. 37 : Thou 
sowest not that body that shall be. 44 : It is sown a natural (or 
nature) body. Matt. v. 20 : Except your righteousness shall ex- 
ceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no 
case enter into the kingdom of heaven. Matt, xxiii. 13: Woe 
unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites ! Woes to them con- 
tinue to verse 29. Acts xxiii. 8 : Sadducees say that there is no 
resurrection, neither angel nor spirit ; but the Pharisees confess 
both. 6 : Paul joined the Pharisees in the hope of the resurrec- 
tion of the dead, for which he was then called in question. Paul 
suffered greatly for that belief, and shows by his after writings a 
full conviction and repentance, for he says, 1 Cor. xv., as before 
stated. And Christ pronounced no woe unto the Sadducees ; show- 
ing clearly the resurrection of dead bodies was untrue, as the Lord 
here plainly teaches also. Bad and backslidden as were all five of 
the sectarian Jews, the scribes and Pharisees were the worst. In 
all Babel creeds now extant on the earth, who struggle to build a 
spirit tower of rotten bodies resurrected to life, part to torture 
eternally and part to enjoy eternal happiness, etc., all have some 
truths in their creeds, as did the scribes and Pharisees and others 
of old ; but they all mix in men tradition false creeds, counter, and 
many utterly contradicting God's statute laws. The Lord has 
opened but one narrow spirit birth way to heaven. John iii. 5 : 
Except a man be born of the spirit, he cannot enter into the king- 
dom of God. 

24.] Master. — Moses said, now what do you say to the follow- 



ing? 



25.] Seven hrethren. — They propose an example consonant to 



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the Mosaic law, which among them might come to pass, or one 
that had actually taken place. 

28.] In the resurrection. — If their dead bodies are all raised, 
with their animal lusts as they were here on earth, they will re- 
quire wives ; and how can one woman be the satisfactory wife of 
seven ? and each will claim her, and most likely if they have the 
same body and souls they had on earth, they will quite likely fight 
each other, but if they refer the matter to you as judge, whose 
wife should she be, of the seven who legally married her here on 
earth according to Scripture law ? 

29.] Ye do err. — All your ideas of the resurrection of rotten 
sin lust begotten bodies, made of vegetation and animal matter 
and animal lust blood life beyond the grave is absurd, as your 
other sectarians, the scribes and Pharisees, falsely teach ; and you 
are also ignorant of the teachings of the Scriptures, which you 
should carefully read, and search diligently for the truth of their 
meaning, and ask in secret God's aid. Gen. ii. 7 : You are plainly 
told God formed man of the dust of the ground. Gen. iii. 19 : 
Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. Eccles. xii. 7 : 
Then shall the dust return to earth as it was. Ps. xxxvii. 10 : 
For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be. 20 : But the 
wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the Lord shall be as the 
fat of lambs (it would not take forever to burn the lambs' fat with 
a good fire) ; they shall consume into smoke, they shall consume 
away. 38 : The transgressors shall be destroyed (annihilated as 
to life of any kind whatever). Isa. v. 24 : Therefore as the fire 
devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their 
root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust : 
because they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and de- 
spised the word of the Holy One of Israel. Isa. xl. 6 : All flesh is 
grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. 
7: The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the Spirit of 
the Lord bloweth upon it ; surely the people is grass. 15 : Behold, 
the nations are as the drop of a bucket, and are counted as the 
small dust of the balance. 17 : All nations before God are as 
nothing, and they are counted to him less than nothing and vanity 
(considering the cost purchase of the spirit born saved, whose 
whole value also is in their Redeemer's purchase blood life sacri- 
fice). 23: God bringeth (earth's) princes to nothing; he maketh 
the judges of earth as vanity. 24 : The whirlwind shall take them 
away as stubble. 22 : It is the Lord that sitteth upon the circle of 
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the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers. Obad. 
16 : They (the wicked) shall be as though they had not been. 
Dan. xii. 2 : And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth 
shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to a resurrection 
of contemptible stench of rottenness (says the original Hebrew). 
Mai. iv. 1 : For behold the day cometh that shall burn as an oven ; 
and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble ; 
and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of 
hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. 

30.] As the angels. — Luke xx. 35 : They which shall be ac- 
counted worthy to obtain that word (spirit life), and the resurrec- 
tion from the dead (blood life dead at the time of such death, not 
resurrection from the grave, dust, elements, etc.). 36. Neither 
can they die any more, for they are equal unto the angels (Ps. civ. 
4). And are the children of God, being the children of the resurrec- 
tion. John iv. 24 : God is a spirit, and like begetting its like, 
his omnipotent statute law of the universe, his spirit born of spirit 
seed, he imparted to his spirit word Son, produces a spiritual new 
creature in Christ Jesus, its spirit head and vine. 2 Cor. v. 17 : 
By the natural or essential attributes of God we understand such 
perfections as his eternity, omnipresence, infinite knowledge, infi- 
nite wisdom, omnipotence, and boundless beneficence, that God is 
a spirit, love, goodness, mercy, and that he only hath immortality, 
and dwelleth in light that no mortal man can approach unto, and 
that none but spirit born of his immortal spirit life word seed 
in Christ Jesus, of all Adam's race, can become immortal in 
existence, in any form or place. 1 Cor. xv. 23 (Rom. viii. 9), 36, 
37, 44 to 51. Of God. — Angels have not flesh bodies of Adam's 



32.] God is not. — A resurrecter of dead bodies, after nor before 
they rot, and return to nature elements, of which they are wholly 
composed. Gen. iii. 19, 22, 24; Eccles. xii. 7. But of. — God is a 
God, and father of all spirit born immortal spirit beings, who are 
like the angels of God, as plainly stated by our Lord, who certainly 
knew, and forever should have stopped the false teachers, who, like 
the pagans, worshiped their blood life nature sin lust bodies that 
God had sentenced to death in Eden, and to native dust. 

33.] His doctrine. — Of spirit angelic life only beyond the grave, 
as heavenly, and full of truth eternal and majesty. 

35.] A lawyer.— Or D.D. of the law. Mark xii. 28 : He is 
called a scribe, which was the common name for all the expounders 



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of the law ; but by Luke xi. 44, 45, it appears that there is some 
difference between the name of scribe, strictly taken, and doctor. 
The scribe taught all the people in the synagogues as a public 
preacher ; and a doctor in the schools as a reader. Tempting him. 
— To see if he agreed with the Pharisee doctrine, who determined 
the degrees of commandments and of sins ; or to take occasion to 
extol their false creeds. 

39.] Is like. — Of equal authority. As thyself. — Doing him all 
manner of good, as thou wouldst have done to thyself, not meting 
out for him an endless hell fire torture, and for thyself an eternal 
home in heaven of perfect happiness, without an alloy thought 
regarding thy neighbors, and perchance thy children, father, 
mother, brothers, and sisters, uncles, aunts, nephews, and nieces, 
and cousins and friends, in endless torment existence ; all counter 
to God's laws holy, and myths and mockeries of God's goodness, 
love, and mercy, that endureth forever, and wholly different from 
what you would desire to have meted out to thyself by thy neigh- 
bor, and for what purpose that endless torture of those God consigns 
to dust ;' their myth horrid God-mocking creeds of those horrid 
inquisition murderers of the dark ages of popery, who, after they 
had burned the body of saints of God as heretics from their dark 
bloodthirsty gangrene evil nature hearts and devil-possessed souls, 
meted out to their tortured and burned to death neighbors a myth 
god devil like themselves, that would resurrect to life again their 
dead bodies, to continue their horrid devil fiend demon torture 
eternally, for no purpose whatever, not to reform, or for purgation, 
but merely for revenge on dead bodies they had tortured to death ; 
when Christ had commanded of God, that blessed are the merciful 
for they should obtain mercy, and that as they desired to have 
meted to them they should in like manner mete out to others 
(Matt. vii. 12 ; Luke vi. 37). 

40.] All the law. — Love is God's essence, and none but those 
that are spirit born of God in Christ Jesus, who pulsate spirit love 
holy that thinketh no evil, are immortal. 

42.] Whose son. — From whom doth his spirit life immortal come, 
and the woman's seed blood life sacrifice according to the Scriptures. 

43.] In spirit.— Horn. viii. 9 : But ye (spirit born holy new 
creatures in Christ Jesus, 2 Cor. v. 17) arc not in the flesh, but 
in the spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Noav if 
any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. 8 : So 
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preach, yea all orthodox, that they like the Egyptian mummy souls 
return from heaven at the rotten body resurrection, and enter again 
their flesh bodies, in which they are plainly told they cannot please 
God.) By divine prophetic revelation David in spirit (not blood 
life nature flesh lusts and aspirations for worldly things) called 
Jesus Lord. Ps. ex. 1 : The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at 
my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool. 

44.] Right hand. — By God's right hand is signified the author- 
ity and power which he hath given his Son, as ruler over all earth's 
spirit born immortal beings. Till I make. — Not that his kingdom 
after that shall end, but be invincible, and having destroyed his 
enemies shall reign eternally. 

45.] If David then. — This name Lord, which David attributes 
unto one of his lineage, contrary to the order of the degree of 
parents upon the children, showeth that the Messiah must be some- 
thing more than the son of David, viz. the eternal spirit word 
power creation Lord God, son of Jehovah, God almighty, the 
sovereign supreme of the universe. 

46.] Answer him. — For the truth uttered by Jesus remains in- 
vincible against all opposition. 



Chapter XXIII. 



1.] Then spahe. — Christ spake to his disciples as well as to the 
wicked masses ; for the wicked lives of pastors will not have the 
laws of God to be despised. How awfully the abominable tradi- 
tions of men doctrines, as still preached in most of the churches on 
earth, mock God and God's Scripture teachings, plainly declared 
statute laws of God, that the prophet Isaiah declares, xxxv. 8, — 
the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein, the way of 
holiness love. 

2.] Sit. — They hold the degree and place of doctors, and ordi- 
nary expositors of Moses' law, for want of priests and Levites, to 
whom God had given the oflice. 

3.] Whatsoever they. — Whatsoever is according to the law which 
they teach (Deut. xvii. 11). Isa. viii. 20 : For otherwise Christ 
had warned them to beware of their false doctrines. Matt. xvi. 6, 
12 ; 1 Thess. v. 21 ; 1 John iv. 1 : the same as now. 



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4.] They hind. — They misconstrue parables into mockeries of 
God's love, goodness, justice, and mercies that endure forever the 
same as now, they gather up together many commands, and most 
strict rules of living and plain dressing, which they most rigorously 
impose upon others to observe, and the man of property must dress 
as if he was in poverty ; and yet they boldly free themselves from 
the observance thereof, often by the finest clothing. 

5.] Seen of men. — Whereby that outward studied appearance 
they have made of virtue is vain and unprofitable, as plainly made 
clothing of stand up instead of turned down collars, broad brimmed 
hats, single breasted coats, and large scoop bonnets, and high 
necked dresses, etc. They are all good ; but to glory in being 
better than those that dress otherwise is pharisaic hypocrisy. 
Phylacteries. — Preservatives, so the Greeks called certain writings 
which they did wear about them against witchcrafts and sorceries ; 
to the resemblance of which, though to a diverse use, were framed 
certain borders or writings upon skins or other stuff. The Jews, 
some of them, wrote portions of the law and wore them upon 
their gowns (Deut. vi. 8) for a present remembrance (Prov. iii. 3 ; 
vi. 21 ; vii. 3). To make a show of greater holiness, the Phari- 
sees did wear those borders broader than the ordinary sort of peo- 
ple. The borders. — See the law (Num. xv. 38 ; Deut. xxii. 12). 

6.] Uppermost rooms. — Chief seats also are often taken by the 
wolves in sheeps clothing, titled officials and vile lust-hearted de- 
mons ; Christ condemns the ambition and thirst for bubble honor 
of mortals which was in them and in thousands of proud aspirants 
and official hypocrites still. 

7.] Rabbi. — D.D., blasphemy ; it must be rotten body gods 
they doctor, and eternal hell fire torturers of all who are heretics 
to their false pagan creeds, church and state titles, from pope 
down to reverend, or rabbi, master, our master. 

8.] Be not ye. — The highest official, instead of feeling proud, 
should feel humble as a servant of the Lord, to whom all glory 
belongs ; and that he is only a servant of the members of the 
church, and not its master, who is the Lord alone of his spiritual 
sanctified spirit born holy church master; all others are his and 
his children's servants. The devil or evil is the master of unclean 
tare seed children officials of the world. This is not to be rashly 
understood for a total rejection of civil and respectful titles for 
public offices, which are marks of officers of order ; but the mean- 
ing is, not in the church to imitate Uzza, 1 Chron. xiii. 9. Nor as 

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Korah, Dathan, and Abiram and their adherents : Num. xvi. 20, 
21 : The Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, Separ- 
ate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume 
them in a moment. (Not forever to be kept alive in the justice 
flame of God's displeasure, but to be consumed in a moment, that 
nothing remains of life from God to continue through infinite 
mercy, probation, or any other life rays from God. Avoid the 
vain glory which the antichrist church and state and all other 
doctor devils annex unto these titles, and do not attribute unto 
yourselves the authority of masters of my church, but refer all 
the glory to me only, and teach nothing but that which you have 
learned of me, for the Scriptures are the only truth guide (2 Cor. 
i. 24 ; 1 Pet. v. 3.) And whomsoever Christ calls receive as com- 
missioned of me, if he adheres to the Scriptures only for all his 
creeds ; do not send him to your Dagon or Diana or the pope's 
Virgin Mary worshipers, nor their vain worldly wisdom colleges 
that know not God (1 Cor. i. 21). To be learned by infidels wise 
in their own vain conceits that know not God, nor to be com- 
missioned by their fellow-men's assumed visorship over those God 
commissions to proclaim his messages. 

9.] Call no man father. — Clearly showing forth Christ's 
spiritual church, composed of those only spirit begotten of God, 
in Christ Jesus spirit seed, gospel word truth spirit life, intel- 
lectual milt, which fills the whole soul with eternal life light from 
God, who only hath immortality, spirit life holy to impart, 1 Tim. 
vi. 16. And the soul spirit egg mind, by way of the soul's will 
door eyes and ears, receives, when it fully believes, the impreg- 
nating spirit word of God's spirit life immortal seed, sown by the 
word of God spirit life (Matt. xiii. 37, 38). John iii. 5 : Except 
a man be born of water and of the spirit, he cannot enter into the 
kingdom of God. 6 : That which is born of the flesh is flesh. 
(And on the mount God commanded honor to be given by all to the 
fathers and mothers of our flesh bodies. Exod. xx. 12 : Honor thy 
father and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land 
which the Lord thy God giveth thee.) And that which is born 
of the spirit is spirit. And the command of God is by his spirit 
word, and by his only spirit begotten of woman's egg seed, in 
unison proclaim God's command ; call no man pope or priest or 
father of his spirit children ; who only like God can be immortal 
in life, in spirit bodies. 2 Cor. v. 17 : Therefore, if any man be 
in Christ he is a new creature. Gal. vi. 15 : For in Christ Jesus 



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neither circumcision availeth anything, nor un circumcision, but a 
new creature. Therefore Christ says call no man your father (or 
pope) on the earth. For you, spirit born of God, are begotten of 
God ; and you all have but one common spirit father. 1 John v. 
18 : We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not ; but he 
that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one 
toucheth him not. This teacheth also believers who are spirit 
born of love, holy, not to yield reverence nor power over their 
consciences to any living man, pope, cardinal, or any other non- 
sensical clown mummeries, or triplicate or red caps of imposters, 
wholly antichrist, and in strict contradiction to Christ, in this 
verse, clearly stated, call no one pope or father, which are the same 
in meaning. All honor and homage is withheld from any earthly 
beings, and belongs wholly to God. Heb. xii. 9 : We have had 
fathers of our flesh, which corrected us ; and we gave them rever- 
ence. That had reference to the nature life blood flesh that ends 
its existence, and returns its substance to the earthy elements of 
which they are formed. Gen. iii. 19 : Dust thou art, and unto 
dust shalt thou return, of the earth earthy, which God will not 
resurrect to heaven, but will consume (2 Pet. iii. 10); the earth 
also and the works that are therein shall be burnt up. Rev. xx. 
11 : No place (in lighted space) found for it. Heb. xii. 9 : Shall 
we (spirit begotten of God .holy) not much rather be in subjection 
unto the Father of spirits, and live? (Not father and resurrector 
of rotten bodies.) You have had millions of fathers that quick- 
ened to life nature life seed egg, that formed and developed your 
nature blood life flesh bodies. But of the soul spirit egg mind 
quickening to spirit life immortal, one is your (spirit) Father, 
which is in heaven. Ignorant unspirit born have antichrist 
popes or fathers of their Babel bogus, mockery church creeds, of 
men towers, that will soon like Dagon fall, with their triplicate 
mockery of God crowns. Jesus used to honor the Pharisees for 
laying these abuses aside, these titles of mortal bubble honor may 
be used in a good sense (1 Cor. iv. 15 ; Phil. ii. 22 ; 1 Thess. ii. 11). 
Receive the Scriptures alone as your only safe guide and foundation, 
which are plain and clearly stated to all who seek first "spirit birth. 
10.] Neither beye. — Christ strictly forbids any of his children's 
receiving the title of master, for at best we are but poor helps to 
each other, and that should ever be in the felt capacity of a ser- 
vant of Christ. He is the only spirit truth master, and in his 
spiritual school alone can we learn spiritual life immortal wisdom. 



272 MATTHEW XXI I I. 

11.] Greatest. — The would-be pope and other titled official fuss- 
and-feathers and triplicate and red-capped self-crowned and sworn 
to each other as secret emissaries of their unclean spirit tare seed 
father the devil ; they are his servants and antichrist. The 
highest dignity in the church is not in domination and lordship, 
but in ministry servitude. All God's spirit begotten children are 
on a level, they are equals, and are like the angels that obey God, 
not men creeds, all are free to speak and proclaim the messages 
they have of their master ; not myth false creeds of men. 

12.] Shall humble. — By virtue of a true and sincere humility. 
Yiew themselves wholly dependent on their spirit life immortal 
vine, Christ in God, without whose aid they are utterly helpless 
(John xv. 5). And at greatest earthly estate I am but a spirit 
babe in Christ, the vine of spirit life eternal. 

13.] Ye shut up. — Ye hinder, as much as in you lieth, by your 
false men creed tradition doctrines, wholly perverting, as do men 
tradition creeds to-day, God's law and his prophet's ; and by your 
authority earthly, and by your earthly examples you hinder mor- 
tals from participating in spirit life's immortal life birth, by faith 
in that salvation and redemption which I bring to the world, and 
the spiritual re-establishment of my spiritual church on earth, of 
which the Jewish was but a shadowing nature life type ; by way 
of spirit birth grace of God's bestowment, on condition of com- 
pliance with his gospel proclamation. That are. — That are di- 
rected by gospel truths, the way of spirit birth holiness to the 
spirit Father ; but them that are searching for truth you lead away 
from gospel truth, to believe your Babel creeds of falsehood, 
started by the father of liars the devil in Eden, when he told Eve 
she should not die ; but that she would be an immortal being : the 
men creed traditions of men hold the devil's lie still sacred, re- 
garding the immortality of Eve's race and Adam's ; but finding 
that all die as God said they should then they manufactured an- 
other worse lie, with villainous mockery of God of the most im- 
pious kind. They manufactured an imaginary myth deity of the 
vulture order of gods that delve in dead rotting carcasses, and by 
magic the rotten bodies are to be all resurrected after they had 
returned to vegetation life of which they were made, and re-eaten 
perhaps a thousand times, or by cannibals, sharks, wolves, tigers, 
lions, etc., yet worse than the Arabian Nights Entertainments of 
utterly depraved falsehoods if possible, this mysterious inconsistent 
with the least spark of commonest sense myth god lets these mor- 



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tal sin lust begotten rotten bodies all receive life from him immor- 
tal, and thereby be resurrected to immortal life of happiness ; even 
the worst murderers, and liars, and villains, and devils, in human 
form ; and the same parties he had cursed with death for their 
sins ; he immortalizes what he had cursed and sentenced to death ; 
and makes at once saints immortal out of devils wholly depraved ; 
making darkness into light ; instead of consuming darkness with 
light, Deut. iv. 24 ; Heb. xii. 29 : For our God is a consuming 
fire ; but other Babel creeds of men to back up the devil's creed 
proclaimed to Eve that she should not die, but become by sin im- 
mortal ; have a division of corruption bodies resurrected to life, in 
which their devil myth god, to stick to the lie told Eve, rather 
than have the immortality life part of his lie wavering in lies, 
pagan myth insanity lies ; they place about nine-tenths of all Adam 
and Eve's sin lust, mortal manufactured immortal tare seed devils, 
incorrigibly wicked, into resurrected rotten bodies ; and then claim 
that the immortal spirit God, pure and holy sovereign of the uni- 
verse, will do all this ; well knowing that nothing can live of all 
earth life beyond its brief probation. The devil creeds of men 
then have the only immortal holy, pure love, goodness, and merci- 
ful spirit God of all life. Impart to those resurrected earth, hog 
and hominy, and grass bodies, that had passed through death's 
corruption, immortal life, which God only in spirit hath, and 
thereby those mortals become immortals, in resurrected bodies from 
annihilation's chaos of gases, and matter and earth elements ; one- 
tenth are taken into the family of spirits, in flesh grass made 
bodies. And nine-tenths are cast into an eternal lake, or ocean 
of fire and brimstone, to torture the resurrected body, or the im- 
mortal spirit impartation of the holy sovereign of the universe : 
to torture in fire his own spirit immortal life, by which power the 
flesh resurrected body is kept in pain, from being consumed in a 
moment, if it were possible to place it there. What mockery, 
my Lord, the devil liars have made of thy holy benefactions to 
our lost doomed rebel race ! how devil like, and evil sin lust nature 
revenge malice like, are all those devil begotten false men creed 
tradition doctrines of pagan and inquisition popery, Roman 
Catholic fire torturers' creeds, who made a god like themselves, 
the worst kind of love mocking demons. The Scriptures teach 
no such doctrines whatever. They plainly teach that the wages 
of sin is death of body blood life, and of their soul's spirit egg 
mind intellect life, as clearly stated. Gen. ii. 7 : And the Lord 



274 MATTHEW XXIII. 

God formed man of the dust of the ground. 17 : But of the 
tree of knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it : for 
in the day (prophetic day one thousand years, 2 Pet. iii. 8 ; Ps. 
xc. 4) that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. Gen. iii. 4 : 
And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die 
(immortal). And unto Adam God said, Because thou hast 
hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the (lust 
exciting) tree of which I commanded thee, saying, thou shalt not 
eat of it : cursed is the ground for thy sake ; in sorrow shalt thou 
eat of it all the days of thy life: their offspring is like them, and 
all die when their brief repentance day closes. 19 : Out of the 
ground wast thou taken : for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt 
thou return. 22 : Lest Adam put forth his hand, and take also 
of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever ; therefore the Lord 
God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground 
from whence he was taken. So he drove out the man (Adam and 
Eve). And he placed at the east of the garden of Eden cheru- 
bims, and a flaming sword which turned every way to keep the 
way of the tree of life. Gen. vi. 3 : And the Lord God said, My 
spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh. 
6 : And it repented the Lord that he had made man on earth 
(does that look like making him over again ?). 7 : And the Lord 
said, I will destroy (annihilate his life) man. Gen. vii. 23 : And 
every living substance was destroyed, both man and cattle, etc. 
And Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in 
the ark. Thus all will perish by God's justice fire on the last 
judgment day at the close of time that are in flesh bodies. They 
alone will be saved alive who are in the spirit life immortal ark, 
Christ Jesus. Eccles. xii. 7 : Then shall the dust return to the 
earth as it was ; and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. 
Isa. v. 24 : Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the 
flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be rottenness, and 
their blossom shall go up as dust ; because they have cast away 
the law of the Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy 
One of Israel. Ezek. xviii. 4 : The soul that sinneth it shall die. 
20 : The soul that sinneth it shall die, 24, 27. Dan. xii. 2 : Some 
to everlasting life, and some to a resurrection of rottenness (says 
the original Hebrew). Obad. 16 : They shall be as if they had 
not been. Mai. iv. 1 : For behold the day cometh that shall burn 
as. an oven ; and all the proud, yea and all that do wickedly, shall 
be stubble. And the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith 



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the Lord of hosts (the best authority), that it shall leave them 
neither root nor branch. Matt. iii. 12 : And gather Christ's 
wheat (spirit born of his spirit wheat, seed of love) into the gar- 
ner (heaven) ; but will burn up the chaff (the incorrigibly wicked 
and tare devil and his unclean spirit children and associate rebels 
against God's truth laws) with unquenchable fire (Deut. iv. 24). 
Heb. xii. 9 : Our God is a consuming fire. Num. xvi. 21 : That 
I may consume them in a moment. Rom. viii. 8 : So then they 
that are in the flesh cannot please God. 9 : But ye (spirit born, 
John iii. 5, 6, holy) are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if so be 
that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not 
the spirit of Christ, he is none of his (1 Cor. xv. 23, 44, 5( ). 

14.] For a pretence. — I have seen the confessions of several min- 
isters that they had done thus after they became truly spirit born 
holy. An orthodox minister told the Sunday-school last sabbath 
that he had committed many sins that sabbath day. 1 John iii. 
8 : He that committeth sin is of the devil ; 9, v. 18. 

15.] Ye make him. — With your false men creed traditions, that 
mock God's Scriptures and his love, goodness, and justice and 
mercy, with endless hell fire tortures, taught by popish inquisitions, 
and your other Babel creeds of resurrecting rotten bodies, etc. 
1 Cor. xv. 36, 37 : Thou sowest not that body that shall be. 44 : It 
is raised a spiritual body. 

16.] Gold. — They make superior to God's law. Rev. xxii. 17 : 
Let him that heareth say come, viz., all spirit born that believe 
God's truths in the gospel, proclaimed in their ears. Whosoever will, 
let him take the water of life (spiritual love) freely, without gold, 
or other money value whatever. 

20.] Whoso. — All your distinctions are frivolous and false, for 
the altar and the gift have an inseparable relation one to the other ; 
the altar being only appointed for gifts, and the gifts being not 
holy without the altar. 

21.] Shall swear by. — The temple itself hath no divinity by 
which one ought to swear. Wherefore all such oaths are blas- 
phemous and vicious. If swearing by the temple man hath rela- 
tion to God, who is present in spirit life light in it, and to whom 
it is consecrated, they cannot be held as vain. 

23.] Pay tithe. — You pay tithe (tribute or church and state 
tax for preachers) of the smallest herbs, which is not commanded 
by God's law. And you affect great devotion (Luke xviii. 12). 

24.] Strain at a gnat. — A proverbial speech, as to say, You are 



276 MATTHEW XXIII. 

very scrupulous in small and indifferent things, and very licentious 
in principal and all important and necessary ones ; as at this day 
they strain out the gnats, and swallow water devils and hell fire 
myths. While on earth, and at blood life death, they are unclean 
spirits seeking rest and find none. Isa. lvii. 20. 21 : The wicked 
are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast 
up mire and dirt. There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked. 
Matt. xii. 43 : When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man 
(Satan's tare seed, xiii. 39, 40), he walketh through dry places 
seeking rest, and findeth none. What encouragement hath the sinner 
in God's plain truthful Scripture way of imperative justice law; 
I find none. And the great mass of human beings now on earth, 
and all the millions innumerable that have lived and heard preached 
an endless torture life existence in an endless hell fire and brim- 
stone. Such teachings still are preached, without any being bene- 
fited thereby beyond the grave. And the most cruel bloodthirsty 
devils hell torture wars have been and are still perpetrated on earth 
by pretended believers of, and preachers of endless hell fire torture 
life to all the incorrigible wicked ; who God's Scripture truths in- 
form us shall be consumed, destroyed, annihilated, as to life. 

All the works of God speak of their author in silent but em- 
phatic language, and declare the glory of his perfections to all the 
inhabitants of the earth. 

But although " there is no speech nor language" where the 
voice of Deity is not heard, how gross are the conceptions gen- 
erally entertained of the character of him in whom we live, and 
move, and have our being (Acts xvii. 28) ; seeing he giveth to 
all life and breath, and all things, and by whose superintending 
providence all events are directed ! Among the greater number 
of pagan nations, the most absurd and groveling notions are enter- 
tained respecting the supreme intelligence, and the nature of that 
worship which his perfections demand. They have formed the 
most foolish and degrading representations of this August Being 
(Bom. i. 23). And changed the glory of the incorruptible God 
into an image made like unto corruptible (rotten bodies) man, and 
to birds, and four footed beasts, and creeping things. 25 : Who 
changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshiped and served the 
creature more than the Creator (worshiping their bodies, that after 
they are rotted back to earth elements, they desire God to resur- 
rect, forgetting Bom. viii. 8 : So they that are in the flesh cannot 
please God), who is blessed forever, amen. Temples in vast num- 



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bers have been erected and filled with idols, the most hideous and 
obscene ; bulls and crocodiles, dogs and serpents, goats and lions, 
have been exhibited to adumbrate the character of the Ruler of 
the universe. The most cruel and unhallowed rites have been per- 
formed to procure his favor, and human victims sacrificed to ap- 
pease his indignation. But eternal life in torture roastings in a 
hell fire, and a rotten body resurrection of rottenness god still 
extant, in men traditions from pagan Roman popish Babel creeds, 
that each are disposed to build like the tower of Babel, to escape 
above the earth's element fire flood, that at the close of time will 
wipe out and cleanse the lighted space now occupied by the filthy 
and thoughtless free thinkers of evil, and nature worshipers. 

All such groveling conceptions and vile abominations have their 
origin in the darkness which overspreads the human understanding, 
and the depraved passions which ignorance has a tendency to pro- 
duce. The Chinese, to frighten away the British cannon, beat loudly 
on their Chinese gongs. Thus immortal life beyond the grave in 
eternal torture agonies is the pagan and Roman inquisition gongs 
that are still in being, with vulture resurrections of putrid corrup- 
tion dead bodies. But the Spirit of the Lord's Scripture thoughts 
of truths plainly stated I humbly trust will sweep away all the 
Babel creeds of falsehood, and mockeries of the supreme sovereign 
of the universe, and source of all immortal life, that he alone im- 
parts on earth by way of his spirit word truth immortal. 

Even in those countries where revelation sheds its influence, and 
the knowledge of the true God is promulgated, how mean and con- 
tracted are the conceptions which the great bulk of the population 
entertain of the attributes of that incomprehensible Being whose 
life light ray presence pervades immensity of lighted space ; who 
rules as supreme sovereign over innumerable suns and systems of 
worlds, that sweep around his lowest heaven throne in millions of 
years. And his towering eternal spirit life immortal children's 
spirit life eternal homes, that he hath formed in his heavenly wis- 
dom through millions of millions of boundless ages of eternity past, 
that no mortal mind hath in its utmost stretch of thoughts soared 
to even catch one ray of God's eternal beatific immortal spirit life 
eternal glory. 1 Cor. ii. 9 : Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither 
have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath 
prepared for them that love him. The views which many have 
acquired of the perfections of the Deity, do not arise much higher 
than those which we ought to entertain of the powers of an arch- 

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angel, or of the seraphim. Even the more intelligent classes of the 
community fall far short of the ideas they ought to form of the 
God of heaven, owing to the limited views they have been accus- 
tomed to take of the displays of his wisdom and benevolence, and 
the boundless range of his operations ; we can acquire a knowledge 
of the Deity only by the visible effects he has produced on all truly 
spirit born holy new creatures, which is only known truthfully by 
each individual recipient of the Spirit of Christ, God's commissioned 
spirit word creation power Son. For the divine essence of the source 
of all life, and the begetters by his word spirit impartations of all 
immortal life holy and pure, must remain forever inscrutable to 
finite minds. These manifestations are made in the revelations 
contained in the Bible, and in the scene of the material universe 
around us. 

The moral perfections of God, such as love, goodness, and mercy, 
and justice, and faithfulness, and power, are more particularly de- 
lineated in his word ; but his book of nature, though silent, in truth 
proclaims his Scriptures truth, and all as footprints and guide- 
boards point to their creator God, and proclaim his immensity, 
omnipotence, wisdom, and goodness ; and to this source of infor- 
mation the inspired writers uniformly direct our attention. Lift 
up your eyes on high and behold ! Who hath created these orbs ? 
Who bringeth forth their hosts in countless numbers, in their bound- 
less lighted space ? The everlasting living God, and Sovereign su- 
preme of the universe, by the greatness of his omnipotent infinite 
almighty power. 

Isa. xl. 15, 17 : All nations before him are as nothing ; and they 
are counted (in value, considering the cost of the redemption grace 
mercy love provision, conditional with obedience thereto) to him 
less than nothing, and vanity ; with all their boasted collegiate 
worldly wisdom that knows not God. In order to acquire a just 
and comprehensive conception of the perfections of Deity, we must 
contemplate his character as displayed both in the system of reve- 
lation and in the system of nature, both understood agree they are 
in unison truth ; otherwise we can acquire only a partial and dis- 
torted view of the attributes of Jehovah. The Scriptures alone, 
without the medium of his works, cannot convey to us the most 
sublime conceptions of the magnificence of his empire, and his 
eternal power and Godhead ; and the works of nature, without 
the Scriptures, leave us in profound darkness with regard to the 
most interesting parts of his character, — the plan of his moral gov- 



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eminent, and the ultimate destination of mortals ; and as the worldly- 
wise philosophers of Greece and Rome, we should still, like them 
and infidels, be groping to find the unknown God (Acts xvii. 23, 
28). And since the sacred writers direct our views to the operations 
of the Almighty in the visible universe, in what manner are we to 
contemplate these operations ? Are we, like the unspirit born savage, 
to gaze on the heavenly revolving suns, and systems of revolving 
worlds, in their mysterious rapid flight of silent obedience to fixed 
laws, that govern to a hair's breadth their ponderous vast bodies, in 
their lightning flight through the ages of their appointed time ; or 
with the penetrating eye of a Christian spirit born holy philosopher ? 
The Scriptures declare, that as the works of Jehovah are great, 
they must be sought out, or thoroughly investigated, by all those 
who love the Lord, and all his works, and words, and way of holi- 
ness. Those ancient popes and their church and state officials who 
with inquisition fires would exterminate as heretics all opposers to 
their demoniac mocking creeds of endless torture to all who op- 
posed their devil creed of rotten body resurrection, and immortal 
life in hell fire torture, or eternal heaven of resurrected dead bodies ; 
they also taught the ignorant as grasshoppers, Isa. xl. 22 : It is 
God that sitteth upon the circle of the earth (the milky way), and 
the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers ; such were the priest- 
hood of inquisition dark ages ; they taught that the earth was a 
fixed mass of land and water in the midst of creation, and one of 
the largest bodies in nature, and consequently, that the sun, moon, 
and stars, and the whole material universe revolved around it, every 
twenty-four hours. Such a conception gave great power to the 
Deity, like their endless life torture of the wicked. But it would 
give us a most strange and distorted idea of his intelligence. 
While it tended to magnify his omnipotence, it would in effect de- 
prive him of the attribute of wisdom. Thus to resurrect to im- 
mortal life the dead rotten and dust remains of sin lust begotten 
grass bodies of mortals (Isa. xl. 7 : Surely the people is grass), and 
put them in endless hell fire tortures, for no imaginable rational 
purpose, after they were once dead ; reason would say let them ever 
remain dead, and they can harm no one. Such a conception would 
represent the Almighty as having in either case devised a system 
of means altogether superfluous and preposterous, in order to ac- 
complish the end intended, for it is the characteristic of wisdom to 
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According to the conception to which we are now adverting, the 
incorrigibly wicked dead must be made immortal (when before, in 
probation state, they were mortal, blood life sin lust, manufacture), 
and that it would take God eternally to destroy them ; and for what 
object they were thus to be made immortal in torture life ; their 
myth deranged evil inquisition (creeds) never yet revealed one 
reasonable cause for such a proceeding : when God's law (Ezek. 
xviii. 4, 20) plainly states the soul that sinneth it shall die ; and 
their bodies all die and rot as an apple or potato ; and all alike it 
would be as rational to believe would be resurrected. It is the 
same reasoning that made the whole material creation daily revolve 
around this comparatively little globe of earth, an idea like the 
rotten body resurrections, altogether extravagant and absurd ; and 
inconsistent with every notion we ought reverentially to entertain of 
infinite wisdom. All such mockeries of the infinitely good, mer- 
ciful, and source of all true wisdom, God, conveyed by myth god 
creeds of men, give a distorted idea of the only immortal life God. 

25.] Make clean. — You desire to appear glorious before men. 
Within. — God, who is a spirit, is not satisfied with men's outward 
service, but, hating all hypocrisy, desires right affections and pure 
conscience, and spirit birth holy new creatures. Extortion. — He 
points out the two chief vices belonging to worldly goods, namely, 
the getting and using of them. 

26.] Cleanse. — Cause the use of the goods to be clean from sin, 
and sanctify it by prayer, thanksgiving, and faith (1 Tim. iv. 5). 
Titus i. 15 : And then thou shalt not need to fear that the unclean- 
ness of the vessel should defile thy conscience. 

27.] Beautiful outward. — Such strain and misinterpret parables, 
to plainly flatly contradict plain statute laws imperative and in- 
fallible of God : Gen. iii. 19 ; Ezek. xviii. 4, 20, 24, 27). Whited 
sepulchres. — Promise all mortals that they are immortals, that they 
mortals beget. 1 Tim. vi. 16 : God who only hath immortality 
(they contradict), and it sounds beautiful to the pride selfish de- 
sires of mortals, to be told that their flesh, bones and blood life 
are of such vast importance to the glory of the sovereign of the 
universe, that he will be a God of dead rotten bodies, and bring 
them to a resurrection life immortal ; but the compliment stops at 
the grave ; but after or before we hear from the same eulogist of 
poor mortals' value, that about nine-tenths of them are to be im- 
mortal in endless hell fire tortures, after they have been resurrected 
to the honor of immortal life, while previous to blood life death 



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they were only mortals. But are. — Our Redeemer here beau- 
tifully portrays the preachers of the resurrection of rotten dead 
bodies, instead of Spirit of Christ new creature resurrection from 
a blood life dead body at its death (1 Cor. xv. 44 ; 2 Cor. v. 17 ; 
Rom. viii. 9). Within. — In their heart and mind soul thoughts 
full of dead men's bones, and of all their rotten flesh uncleanness 
that they would mock Christ as the resurrection and life of. 

28.] Outwardly appear. — Christ sets out here the scribes and 
Pharisees in their proper colors, to show the people they ought not 
to imitate them, because they serve not God as was befitting, but 
only in pretence, gesture, countenance, and outward appearance, 
which profiteth nothing. 

29.] Ye build. — He condemns them, in that they build monu- 
ments in memory of the prophets, yet they have their doctrine in 
no esteem ; such now love politicians of their faith, far more than 
church members of opposite political affinities. 

31.] Of them. — As your tradition creeds of men officials for- 
merly did to the prophets of God, ye will do. 

32.] Fill ye up. — You confess yourselves to be descendants of 
thoso that slew the servants of God ; and having hitherto imitated 
them, there remains nothing but that you should accumulate your 
rage upon me, and upon my servants, to cause the full deluge of 
God's judgments to fall upon you ; seeing that, according to the 
order of his justice, the wicked children of the wicked parents do 
oftentimes bear the punishment of both, as heaped up all together 
(Gen. xvi. 15 ; Ps. lxix. 28). 

33.] Generation of vipers. — The devil occupied the viper that 
seduced Eve, and of that viper sin lust begotten race are all rebel 
sinners. You will see lust vipers in church and parlor, and cot- 
tage and log cabin, alike protrude their snaky tongues of lust 
poison viper fire between their lust lips. Poor mortals in natures 
unspirit of Christ begotten are soon forever dead. They are ser- 
pent viper evil nature liars, nicknamers even of Jesus, and 
blasphemers. 

34.] Wherefore, behold. — Because I know that you are wicked 
and cruel, as your fathers were, I do foretell you that you will 
persecute my servants to the uttermost, whereupon shall follow 
your utter ruin as a nation, favored heretofore above all others of 
God. Prophets. — By these names are meant all the ministers of 
the gospel, spirit born holy commissioned when they receive the 
Spirit of Christ (Rom. viii. 9). Some were then inspired imme- 

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diately of God, as apostles, evangelists, and prophets, pastors, 
meant by the name of wise men and teachers, set down by the 
name of scribes (Eph. iv. 11). This was spoken to remind them 
of ingratitude. 

35.] Upon you. — He comprehends their whole generation in 
one body, similar to other condemnation spoken of when all nations 
alive on earth at the close of time only are referred to on the last 
day of earth's probation time ; they are the ones that gnash, and 
they are all that are or ever will thereafter be again in their flesh 
blood life bodies, and they constitute all flesh, for there is no other 
but that then at the last judgment-day are alive on earth, and 
poureth forth into the bosom of the children the iniquities of 
their fathers, whom they resembled in wicked maliciousness. All 
the. — The punishment for all my servants' innocent blood. Abel. 
— He mentions the first and last martyr, comprehending in them 
two all the other that intervened. Zacharias. — It is the same 
man that is called the son of Jehoiada (2 Chron. xxiv. 20, 21). 
And we must imagine that the father had two names, according 
to the Jewish custom. Christ makes mention of him because he 
is the last of them that are mentioned in the books of the Old 
Testament. Whom ye. — Your fathers, whose wicked ways and 
false Babel creeds ye imitate and hold to. .All of which culminated 
in the crucifixion of Jesus, the only spirit begotten of woman's 
seed, for the express purpose of destroying the devil, evil, and 
death (Heb. ii. 14). 

36.] All these things. — The accumulated murders, punishment 
which had been formerly committed centred in the murder of the 
holy Jesus of Nazareth. All these things shall come upon this 
generation. How different the Lord's truth is from Babel creeds 
eternal torture. 

37.] Row often. — Seeing that God's will cannot be an imper- 
fect will of desire only, which is a token of infirmity (Ps. cxv. 3), 
and that his decree is immutable, and will suffer no opposition 
(Isa. xlvi. 10 ; Bom. ix. 19), we must of necessity under- 
stand all this to be meant of the dispensation of outward means 
by the word, exhortations, commandments, etc., which are the 
rules and the object of men's obedience, and the argument of 
condemnation of their rebellion (Deut. xxix. 29 ; Luke ii. 34, 35.) 

38.] Your house. — God will shortly forsake your city and your 
temple, withdrawing his protection and presence from thence, 
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39.] I say unto you. — That is, my corporeal presence shall 
shortly leave you, and soon after that I will take away from you 
the spiritual presence of my grace and virtue, until the fullness 
of the Gentiles be come in (Rom. xi. 25 ; 2 Cor. iii. 16). When 
it shall turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away (Ps. cxviii. 
26). Paul's belief of flesh bodies resurrection was his Pharisee 
belief before conversion, and, like Luther and Calvin, the reform- 
ers, he still had as second nature belief habits, like them many 
tradition errors. John Wesley had been an Episcopal preacher 
for years, with no saving faith until enlightened by a Moravian 
missionary from Bethlehem, Pa., Hussites. 



Chapter XXIV. 



1.] To show him. — It seems that this discourse was occasioned 
by the Lord's remarks previous (Matt, xxiii. 38), concerning the 
desolation of the temple, whose greatness, and soundness of the 
building, seemed to make his prediction to be very incredible. 

2.] Not be left. — Christ foretelleth the destruction of Jeru- 
salem, and the condition of the people under Vespasian the Roman 
emperor. 

3.] Of thy coming. — Whereof he had spoken. They perhaps 
thought he was to be a temporal king, and that the destruction of 
the temple would not occur until the end of the world. 

4.] Take heed. — He answered them not as they anticipated ; 
he told them what was necessary for them. 

5.] In my name. — Usurping, as do popes, authority wholly be- 
longing to Christ. And he forearmed his disciples, and the whole 
truly holy Christian spirit born church of the Messiah, against 
the deceits of false Christs and antichrist, telling them of the 
false coming of Christ, and tells them concerning his last coming 
in glory. Deceive many. — The vast multitude of Babel men tra- 
dition creeds of impostors and seducers should not pervert us from 
the right way of the gospel, the only holy spirit born narrow truth 
way to heaven. 

7.] Shall rise. — Many and great wars followed afterwards, 
among the Gentiles, for their despising and disregarding God's 
proffered mercy. 



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9.] Ye shall be hated. — As if ye were the causes of these dis- 
turbances. 

10.] Hate one another. — Sectarian Babel creeds, Roman Catho- 
lic inquisition fires, consumed in tortures for centuries all who op- 
posed their vicegerency and false God-niocking blasphemous creeds 
of the pope, man of sin, with his Latin litany (Rev. xiii. 18). 

11.] False prophets. — Every preacher on earth that teaches 
anything contradicting God's statute laws, as clearly stated in the 
Scriptures, is a false prophet. When the Bible is acknowledged 
to be the infallible foundation, why will mortals teach contrary to 
it? 

12.] Iniquity. — Many seeing the malice against Scripture teach- 
ers, and ingratitude of men, will withdraw themselves from doing 
good, when believing the Bible to be true. Men creed worshippers 
call them heretics. 

13.] Endure. — He would warn those that were his against 
these temptations to evil. Ezek. xviii. 4, 18. 24 : When the righte- 
ous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, 
and dieth (blood life body death without repentance) in them, for 
his iniquity that he hath done shall he die. 27 : (If he repent 
and doeth right before blood life dies) he shall save his soul 
alive. 

14.] Of the kingdom. — Matt. iv. 23, and ix. 35 : The meaning 
is, You ask me concerning the end of the world, and of the temple 
together, as if the one could not happen without the other. But I 
tell you that the ruin of the temple shall happen first ; and after that 
my gospel shall be preached in all the nations of the world, and by 
means of it I will enter into possession of my spiritual kingdom, 
gathering together mine elect, all spirit born of God that have 
kept the truth gospel faith to blood life's end ; I will consume all 
mine enemies, and then the end of the world shall come, or occur 
at the same time, for all shall consume together (Mai. iv. 1). In 
all. — Generally to all nations without any difference, even to the 
Jews (Rom. x. 18 ; Col. i. 6, 23). For a witness. — For instruc- 
tion and persuasion of the repentant, and for the conviction and 
condemnation of the wicked. And then. — After my gospel hath 
been proclaimed to all nations, and my spirit born children are all 
removed from their blood life probation bodies by my angels to 
my great white throne in the lower second heaven, safe from 
earth's atmosphere (Rev. xx. 11). The end. — The -end of the 
world will not occur before God has exercised his church with many 



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trials of their patience arid faith ; he that endureth to the end shall 
be saved (2 Pet. iii. 10). 

15.] When ye. — He gives an answer to the "apostle's question 
concerning the time of the desolation of the temple. By this 
abomination it seems is meant the military Roman ensigns, or 
eagles, they being a profane nation, and held their said eagles for 
gods, and worshiped them as they who are Catholics still do their 
man of sin pope, and did swear by them ; and wheresoever they 
came they brought desolation along with them, especially to the 
.Jews. Stand. — This may be understood either of the Roman 
eagles which were placed by the Roman governors upon the porch 
of the temple for a token of dominion, which caused the Jews to 
rise, upon which the last war resulted that destroyed them as a 
nation ; or of the same eagles set upon the temple for trophies 
after the total conquest of the nation. 

16.] Then let them. — After the city is taken, and the temple 
profaned, then shall the desolation of the whole nation come, there- 
fore let him that can save himself, and shows that destruction shall 
fall upon them so suddenly that they shall not have time to pro- 
vide for themselves'. 

17.] To take. — To try to carry away his goods of household 
stuff, but to fly, and study only how to preserve only his own 
person. He uses divers reasons, all tending to the same ends. 

20.] On the sabbath day. — Because that the travel which was 
permitted on that day was limited to a short distance, Acts i. 1 2. And 
the day being kept holy, it would be difficult to provide for a flight. 

22.] Those days. — The time of the Roman invasion for con- 
quest, which, if not restrained by the Lord, the utter destruction 
of the Jews would have taken place, and Abraham's nature seed 
of blood life would have become extinct ; but like sparing Noah in 
the deluge, some would be spared. 

23.] Is Christ. — Many such imposters rose against the Jews 
after Christ's ascension, as the pope of Rome. 

24.] If it were possible. — Rom. viii. 9 ; 2 Thess. ii. 13 ; Rev. 
ix. 4 : All truly spirit born holy have the spirit life blood love 
pulsating the new spirit creature in Christ Jesus (2 Cor. v. 17). 
Such are not so easily deceived by false creeds of men and false 
popes, as soon as they see a lack of love, purity, and holiness, and 
it is not possible for such false usurpers to drive Christ's protec- 
tion away from them while they remain faithful in love and obedi- 
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27.] As the lightning. — Refuse ye all those that would give you 
false impressions of the Messias his coming, for I will come no 
more in human form to converse openly with the people of earth ; 
and as for my coming to judgment, it shall be with so much glory 
and universal splendor, that my spirit born holy children need not 
look for it in secret places, by the direction of mortals who assume 
to be wise above what is revealed. 

28.] For wheresoever. — This is not a reason for things spoken 
in the preceding verse, but a confirmation of the exhortation which 
he had made to them, to avoid the deceit the unspirit born unholy 
who shall again look for Christ to come in human form as ruler 
of earth in church and state, whereas true spirit born new creature 
holy believers, free from sin by the drawings of Christ spirit 
within them to the fountain of spirit love life immortal food, 
ought to, and do, look for Christ by faith prayers in secret in 
heaven, whither he is gone to feed his spirit begotten of soul 
spirit mind eggs, intellectual spirit life immortal expanding wisdom 
delights pure and holy. As eagles, and such like birds, do by a 
natural instinct, or faculty of smelling, fly a great distance to find 
food. 

29.] Immediately. — After the fulfillment of probation life scenes, 
wars, and troubles, sorrows, and daily death devastations, and sin's 
pestilence scourges, and with Grod immediately, to whom a thou- 
sand years are but as one day (Ps. xc. 4 ; 2 Pet. iii. 8, 9). Or 
under the afflictions of the Jews aforesaid we must also com- 
prehend all the afflictions of Christ's spirit born children on 
earth, from the tare seed children of Satan, who are as pestilence 
scourges to the blood life flesh bodies to the pure of heart, with 
their impure thoughts and words of false teachings, and will be 
until Christ's last coming. The sun. — The prophets often thus 
by a figure describe the horror of Grod's judgments (Isa. xiii. 10 ; 
Ezek. xxxii. 7 ; Joel ii. 31 ; iii. 15). But here it seems all ought 
to be understood literally in its proper signification (Rev. vi. 12). 
The powers. — The whole frame of heaven, most strong and im- 
mutable in its being and motion, the mighty bodies thereof most 
mighty in their substance and lastingness, and in the swiftness of 
their motion. 

30.] The sign. — There is no particular sign specified here. It 
may be the glory of divine light, which shall be made visible to 
mortal eyes, or the sound of the trumpet and voice of the angels 
(1 Cor. xv. 25; 1 Thess. iv. 16), or the appearance of some 



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preceding sign of him who is coming in his glorified spirit word 
creation sonship, then crowned the only spirit judge, to close up 
time's creation, and open in eternal spirit life immortal glory. 
Tribes of the earth. — All unspirit born of God, which are ene- 
mies and rebels to Christ's holy law of spirit birth life immortal 
love pulsations. Mourn. — Sorrow for God's present judgment of 
war of elements, and for despair (Rev. i. 7 ; vi. 15,16) ; and this 
is a different kind of mourning from that of Zech. xii. 10. 

31.] His elect. — Spirit born holy will be taken by the angels of 
God from their blood life bodies, in a moment, and clothed with 
spirit bodies, and borne to meet their Lord and all the spirit born 
holy who had been previously resurrected when their blood life 
probation had closed, from creation until that closing last mo- 
mentous day of judgment. J Cor. xv. 49, 50, 52 : God is a 
spirit. His children bear his image. Flesh and blood cannot 
inherit the kingdom of God. Neither doth corruption (rotten 
bodies) inherit incorruption. We spirit born holy shall not all 
close blood life's probation until the last day of time dawns ; then 
in a moment all shall be changed, who then live in blood life 
bodies, that are spirit born holy, to spirit immortal life glorified 
bodies that require no nature food. 1 Cor. xii. 27: Now ye 
(saints) are the body of Christ (spirit begotten of Christ in God). 
Phil. iii. 31 : Who shall change our vile (sin lust begotten blood 
life body, Ps. li. 5) body. That it may be fashioned like unto his 
glorious body. 

33.] That it. — Christ coming to judgment is near, and the 
close of time. 

34.] This generation. — The generation living on the earth, 
when signs and wonders here spoken of shall be developed in 
whole. 33 : When ye shall see all these things here spoken of. 
False prophets shall arise, religion shall be confused after the Lord 
left the earth, and his apostles ; Babel confusion of tongues, spir- 
itual in pretence, each false preacher, prophet, under various 
headed creeds ; and mingled with state, God and mammon, popes 
and self titled officials; who as to day swear allegiance to their 
pope, and his Babel, Latin, Greek, English, or other litany, and 
their several popes; and all the various Babel creeds on earth, 
each worshiping men tradition creeds, instead of God. All dif- 
ferent unclean spirit Babel creed worshipers of false doctrines contra- 
dicting God's Bible truths are like the worshipers of the goddess 
Diana. Great is our church. The church, etc., when God's 



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spirit light reveals his Scriptures as the only heaven way creed, 
all Babel creeds will end. 

35.] Heaven and earth. — The atmosphere air surrounding 
earth, in which the birds fly, and clouds, was then called the 
lower heaven air. 2 Pet. iii. 10 : But the day of the Lord will 
come as the thief in the night ; in the which the heavens shall 
pass away (that would seem to be all belonging to our sun's 
sphere, including all from the sun to Uranus, or still vaster sweep- 
ing away ; God only knows, and enough for mortals to know is 
that which follows) with a great noise (now all move without 
noise in their swift flight). And the elements (earth's atmo- 
sphere) shall melt with fervent heat ; and the earth also, and the 
works that are therein shall be burnt up. Bev. xx. 11 : And I 
saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it (Christ the spirit 
judge of all the earth) from whose face (beatific glory justice 
flame of Jehovah God) the earth and the heaven fled away ; and 
there was no place (in lighted space) found for them. Their 
refuse, with all unclean spirit life, will be cast into outer death's 
eternal sleep, inane darkness, the bottomless chaos pit. 

36.] My Father. — Mark xiii. 32 : The spirit begotten Son ex- 
cludes himself, as son of man, from this knowledge ; but not his 
spirit word spirit life in God. John xvii. 11 ; x. 30 : I and 
my Father are one. In spirit love, goodness, holiness, mercy, and 
in all spiritual wisdom, and other infinite holy attributes, we are 
agreed in unison as one. Not that Christ wanteth in his spirit 
word sonship any divine perfections, either of knowledge, or any 
other, John v. 20 ; i. 1, 2 : The same in the beginning was with 
God. John i. 12, 13 : Which were born of God, not of sin lust 
mortal seed. His office of doctor of the church (D.C., not D.D.) 
would not bear the declaring of it. 

37.] The coming. — That is, their thoughts who are unspirit 
born unholy shall be evil continually (Gen. vi. 5) ; evil judging 
the righteous ; evil imaginations, lies, blasphemies, nicknamers, 
thefts, and Babel creeds, wars and strife, when least expected. 

38.] Drinking. — Similar to the mortals on earth to-day. No 
doubt they had the same devil to aid their evil imaginations and 
evil faculties to invent modes of turning God's blessings for food 
to preserve blood life reason and love and gratitude to him for 
them, into a curse of poison to soul mind intellect, and filling it 
with blasphemy and evil lust, and other vile and murderous im- 
aginations wholly evil, and also to wholly dethrone reason, and 



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destroy both soul and body life and happiness, gratifying evil sin- 
ful nature brute lusts and appetites. 

39.] Knew not. — Being blinded with unbelief of Grod's truths 
proclaimed by his servant. 

40.] Then shall. — There shall be this difference between these 
and Noah's days, as to those saved and those that perish body 
and soul. Those saved shall not be by families, as in the cases 
of Noah and Lot ; but wholly by individuals. All that are saved 
are saved by their own faith belief of Glod's truths, and spirit 
birth new creature spirit life immortal in Christ their spiritual 
ark of safety, that the fire flood that envelops earth at the close 
of time cannot harm; or shall perish in their own filthy unclean 
spirit evil imaginations, void of faith belief in gospel truth, 
and outside of the ark of safety (Heb. ii. 4; Matt. xxv. 9). 
Be token. — All in blood life bodies on the earth at the last 
judgment day who have by way of spirit birth the new creature 
life (2 Cor. v. 17). The angels commissioned by the Lord, as 
were those who removed Lot in body and soul life out of Sodom, 
to remain still upon the earth, but different from Lot, they will 
be changed from mortal blood life body habitations in a moment, 
into spirit bodies immortal, wherein their new spirit born creature 
spirit life immortal shall pulsate spirit love's immortal spirit love 
life, and shall escort them in glorious triumph to meet their 
Saviour, and all the saints whom he had previously resurrected in 
spirit bodies immortal at their individual blood life death ; all of 
whom he had brought with him as jurors, to award the last judg- 
ment on the living wicked on earth in blood life flesh nature sin 
lust begotten bodies, and all tare seed, unclean spirit beings, chil- 
dren of the devil or evil, or of the viper serpent of Eden stock, 
and fallen angels who kept not their first estate, and the devil — 
death the last enemy. 

41.] Be grinding. — According to the custom of these days, two 
grinding their food with hand mills; and also clearly showing that 
then as now, and at the close of time, the Lord's coming means 
not only his spirit body's personal coming to judge the inhabitants 
then alive in blood life bodies on earth, but that every blood life 
death was as the coming of the Lord by his representative angels, 
whom he commissions to escort all spirit born children begotten 
spiritually of the soul's spirit egg mind, by the spirit word seed 
of G-od in Christ Jesus his spirit word creation power, and only 
spirit begotten of woman's seed son ; whom he commissioned and 
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empowered thus to beget new spirit born creatures by way of his 
spirit love faith belief truth immortal spirit life word seed. 

42.] Watch. — Be in a perpetual actual exercise of faith, which 
is ever trusting in and relying upon God in Christ for salvation 
and spiritual food, and fittingly to be prepared always to receive 
your Saviour, who came then, as now, in power to save all his 
spirit born new creature children at blood life death. And as 
death of blood life may occur any moment of nature life, be always 
ready with your spiritual immortal life trunk packed with love, 
goodness, mercy, holiness, truths of the gospel promises, faith, and 
all Christian immortal life graces, gratitude to God, Father, Son, 
and Holy Ghost, for the eternal life journey. 

43.] The good man. — By this similitude he shows clearly that 
all sanctified holy spirit born of, and begotten of, God's immortal 
love spirit life immortal, by way of Christ Jesus, his spirit word, 
and spirit begotten of woman's seed mediator Saviour Son, who 
is (not has been, or will be) the resurrection and spirit life of all 
new spirit love begotten creatures, who abide in his light life spirit 
rays of immortal eternal sunshine from God's spirit life glory sun- 
light that ever beams through Christ's glory rays, and imparts life 
to the soul's spirit egg mind of all who open their soul's will door 
to admit the immortal love light life. Such spirit born new crea- 
tures in Christ their spirit vine are subject to his call and eleva- 
tion or resurrection from the blood life flesh body at any moment ; 
then the blood life body dies, and is soon rotted back to nature 
elements. Therefore mortals should be ready with love's pure vir- 
tuous wedding garment of righteousness always. 

44.] Ready. — It is only those who are ready with their wedding 
garment and intellect spirit begotten of God lamps of love, grati- 
tude, adoration, thanksgiving, and praise to God, soul lamps filled 
with spirit love odors, and lighted with Christ's spirit life rays 
from his Father's ineffable beatific eternal life light rays which no 
mortal can approach unto. 

45.] Hath made. — These words are directed to the pastors of 
the church and teachers of God's word and ministry of his grace 
(Matt. xvi. 19). Whereof the two principal virtues are also 
pointed at ; viz., adhesion to the Lord and his way of gospel truths, 
and wholly discarding all men tradition Babel creeds ; faithfulness 
in love and holiness to the Lord, the substance of the ministry 
and prudence in the manner of exercising it to edifying salvation. 

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are not loved and esteemed by the world which they reprove. Yet 
their peace and joy always is they are loved in their heaven spirit 
homes. 

47.] Shall make him. — By the figure of the custom of mer- 
chants doing a large trade, who select faithful servants trustwor- 
thy. 1 Pet. v. 5 : And when the chief shepherd shall appear, ye 
shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away, as doth all 
earthly evanescent fleeting bubble glory. 

48.] If that evil. — The Lord seems to point at some particular 
person that should usurp a tyranny over the church, and change 
the spirit birth spiritual service into a church and state temporal 
dominion, and carnal delights at vain pontifical triplicate pride, and 
evil nations worldly crown, as the Babel church popes of Rome, 
popes of Greece, or now Emperor of Russia, who is the head of 
the Greek Babel church and state ; and pope of the Turkish Ma- 
homet Babel church and state ; and the pope Henry VIII. and the 
king and queen popes of the church and state of England (Rev. 
xviii. 7). 

49.] Smite. — Thus each of those popish church and state have 
done and still continue to do, but in a restricted way. All those 
church and state officials are drunk with self-Babel delusion. 

50.] For him. — All their vain church and state official pride, 
in the sudden blood and soul life disease pangs and death that 
quickly comes to all mortals. Unexpected it comes upon them. 

51.] Gut him asunder. — From all spiritual communion in pray- 
ers to God, through Christ the closed door to all mammon state 
Babel false creeds of vile aspiring domineering pope devils in 
human form and from God's favor (Deut.. xxix. 21). With the 
hypocrites. — Who have previous to their backsliding been associated 
in church membership with Christians, or have been hidden under 
the cloak of being Christ's minister, with the parchment of his 
associates, to the exclusive promulgation of false Babel creeds of 
men ; each church and state or self-styled reformer official claims 
his the only true road to heaven, and all the other Babel creed 
roads branch into hell's broad way to eternal death, so say they all. 
Each is the church ; and the only way to heaven they all falsely, 
with Babel creed slime of rotten body resurrection and endless 
hell tortures, say. Ezek. xviii. 4, 20, 24, 27 : The soul that sinneth 
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Chapter XXV. 

1.] The kingdom. — The state of the church, wherein God reign- 
eth spiritually in the person of the Messias. To start in the 
heavenly way, and not persevere diligently, hath no bounty life 
immortal. Ten virgins. — A similitude taken from the fashion 
used at weddings ; at which anciently the maidens which were the 
bride's kinswomen and acquaintances went forth from the bride's 
house with lamps to meet the bridegroom, while on his entrance 
to the bride's house to take her away to his own house, which 
was commonly done in the night time. Thus Christ's bride's spirit 
born new heavenly creatures, at blood life death, he takes them 
from their blood life flesh body house of dust, to his Father's many 
mansioned spirit house, clothed with a spirit glorified body like 
the angels of God, who all have eternal life lamps lighted by the 
Father of all immortal spirit life's eternal life light, beatific glory 
of God. The virgins are they that make profession of having 
received regenerating spirit birth from God. The wise virgins are 
the truly spirit born of Christ's spirit life immortal seed, holy, 
pure, and righteous, that pulsate in their soul's new spirit born 
creature immortal life spirit love, Christ's spirit oil that never di- 
minishes, but eternally burns in spirit life, expanding the spirit 
intellectual mind. Rom. viii. 9 : Those that have the Spirit of 
Christ, and are his. The foolish ones are they who have Babel 
creeds of men, lip service ; but no love, nor spirit of Christ oil 
that lives and burns in intellectual spirit wisdom love light life, 
that ever expands ad infinitum. 

8.] Give us. — Many when blood life's taper glow-worm light of 
dust flickers, and is about to expire, when the holy spirit born call 
upon them, they cry give us of your spirit love of Christ, when 
none but Christ, the mediator, whose Scripture narrow way they 
have discarded and held to the shorter cross cut from death's broad 
way to heaven ; the Babel spirit tower, creeds of men ; but there 
is no spirit birth new creature spirit of Christ saving oil in their 
souls, and it dies (Ezek. xviii. 4). 

9.] Not so. — It is clearly impossible to be benefited by another's 
faith and spirit birth in the closing moments of blood life's proba- 



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tion (Heb. ii. 3, 4). Go ye. — Provide some yet, if you can, from 
him who alone can impregnate your soul spirit egg mind with 
God's spirit love life immortal, Christ Jesus the mediator Saviour ; 
for no one receiveth spirit birth for another (John iii. 5), and it is 
not communicable to others. Not that this last minute of time 
will permit of any new acquisition of grace from God. And buy. 
— Without money or price, as the thief on the cross did, but that 
one case of all Adam's race of unnumbered millions is given, that 
none might despair of seeking for regenerating spirit life immortal ; 
and none should presume to delay until the nickering last moments 
of blood life probation what should have been their business of 
life. 

12.] I know you not. — Gen. iv. 1 : And Adam knew Eve his 
wife. Thus the she soul spirit egg minds of those referred to, 
Christ had not known them by spirit life immortal spirit love 
belief, impregnations, quickening resurrection life eternal. I dis- 
claim you as any of my spirit born of my seed (Matt. xiii. 38, 39 ; 
John iii. 5). Your probation blood life of volition has been spent 
in vain, and you would not seek of me life, in my Scripture narrow 
way to immortality by way of spirit birth ; but you followed the 
Babel spirit tower way, that leaves all the mere men creed believ- 
ers, all on the earth, which soon will be burned up, and their refuse 
with it shall be cast out of lighted space. 

13.] Watch. — Do not be led away from the way of holiness, 
which alone leads to heaven. 

14.] Traveling into. — This voyage is a figure of Christ's ascent 
and abode in heaven (Matt. xxi. 33). The vast millions of mil- 
lions of miles' travel of Christ to his heavenly Father's throne of 
beatific holiness glory did not. probably occupy the Messiah any 
great length of time to go to his Father's right hand spirit love 
mediatorial throne. For he no doubt gave the woman's seed flesh 
and bones of human form clothing, to earth's elements, when he 
had passed beyond his disciples' mortal vision. For our Lord had 
often previously clothed in human form a communicable attribute 
of his spirit love, to communicate with mortals, to make known to 
them his spirit life narrow way of spirit birth holiness, new crea- 
ture spirit life immortal. Job x. 11 : Thou hast clothed me with 
skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews (Isa. 
lxi. 10). Josh. i. 1 : The Lord spake unto Joshua, in a human 
body form, or clothing, or medium, used only by him. Num. xvi. 
20 : And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron. Exod. xl. 1 : 

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And the Lord spake unto Moses saying (Exod. xx. 1-26). Gen. 
xxxii. 30 : Jacob saw the Lord face to face in human form, and 
(24) a man in appearance, to Jacob, who changed Jacob's name to 
Israel. 1 : The angels met him. Gen. xviii. 1 : Three men. 13. 
And the Lord spake unto Abraham. Jud. vi. 16: And the 
Lord spake unto Gideon often, and -to various ones the Lord used 
the human form medium clothing of a portion of his spirit. 

15.] Talents. — Each talent was commonly worth six hundred 
crowns. According to. — Proportionably according to his calling, 
which is always accompanied with some special gift for to manage it. 

16.] Traded with. — Those men traffic in the church, who 
employ those gifts that they have received from God to the profit 
and advantage of the whole church of the spirit children of 
God. 

18.] Hid his lord's. — By this is meant such as employ not 
those gifts they have received from God, to that use and end for 
which they received them. 

19.] Cometh. — At blood life death, which may occur at any 
moment when their probation ends. 

21.] Info the joy. — Into everlasting happiness, at blood life 
death, if spirit born holy pulsating love. 

24.] That thou art. — The Babel creeds of men, upon which 
sectarian theologists often labor hard to lead their adherent church 
members to believe God a hard master, if he does not save them 
in their sins. Other Babel men creeds preachers of traditions of 
men creeds, that mock God's narrow spirit born love way of gospel 
truths, and hew out pagan myth god cisterns, with no bottom of 
truth, that mock God with making him a vulture mythology god, 
to resurrect to life vile sin lust begotten bodies. Ps. li. 5 : Behold, 
I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. 
Phil. iii. 21 : Who shall change our vile body, that it may be 
fashioned like unto Christ's glorious body. Gen. i. 31 : And God 
saw everything that he had made, and behold it was very good. 
Thus Adam's body from earth dust was good. Why not, Babel 
creed mortal, use reason, and not mock God who can make good 
(not vile sin lust bodies rottenness refuse) bodies if any such are 
needed, of which need I find no Scripture to sustain. Bom. viii. 
8 : So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God ; such 
think God a hard master ; others have a pagan myth god in their 
Babel traditions of men creeds, that are brought down from the 
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heretics, and their myth God was, like themselves, a god of torture, 
that would resurrect the ashes and smoke of the good Christians 
they had burned, and torture them eternally ; such vile mockers 
of the God of heaven, whose essence is love, goodness, mercy, and 
righteous holiness, purity justice, will also at their utter exclusion 
from heaven think God a hard master, because he is not a devil 
like them full of revenge and hatred to all who differ in views 
with them, calling them enemies. How different God's way as 
taught by gospel truths. Matt. v. 44 : Love your enemies, bless 
them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for 
them that despitefully use you and persecute you. 45 : That ye 
may be the children of your Father which is in heaven, for he 
maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth 
rain on the just and on the unjust. Ezek. xviii. 4, 20, 24, 27, 
32 : For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith 
the Lord God ; wherefore turn yourselves and live ye. 

25.] Hid thy talent. — The lover of his own supreme self, and 
gratifier of his lusts and appetites, and dance heel intellect cul- 
tivator, when called to look to the welfare of their souls, cries out, 
T have no time to bother my head to learn which is the Lord's 
way. 

26.] Thou knewest. — He well knew that he had utterly neglected 
and rejected the strivings of God's spirit truth in early life, and 
was then a hardened rebel sinner. 

27.] Thou oughtest... — Thou shouldst have devoted thy blood life 
which was daily fed on my miraculously expanded life germinations 
food, and used the light of my sun ; I sustained the earth in its 
place in its vast evolutions, I spared thy probation blood life, and 
not one day have you spent in my service ; but you have de- 
voted all your blood life to sinful gratifications of your animal lusts 
and appetites, and your soul intellect mind egg wherein you might 
have received immortal spirit life seed you have admitted your 
worst enemy to occupy with evil. 

28.] Take. — At blood life death, his life soul intellect spirit is 
like the sun's rays then taken from him, and he is left in endless 
chaotic death, without one gleam of life. Eccles. xii. 7 : Then shall 
the dust return to the earth as it was ; and the spirit shall return 
unto God who gave it ; and on the redeemed spirit born holy those 
life rays will ever shine in fall beatific life eternal glory rays. Acts 
xvii. 28 : In God we live. Out of life rays of God none live. 

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new creature life received Christ's spirit shall have immortal life's 
abundance. Shall be taken away. — God's gifts and graces shall 
certainly be taken away from such who employ them not to the 
good and profit of their neighbors. The life he hath, and soul, shall 
die (Ezek. xviii. 4, 27). 

30.] Outer darkness. — Utter darkness, outside of lighted space 
and life in any form ; inane death and darkness beneath all lighted 
space, like a similar death night chaos that pervaded ere creation. 
Gen. i. 2 : The earth was without form, and void. And darkness was 
upon the face of the deep ; and, as in ver. 29, from him that hath 
not spirit life immortal seed from Christ's spirit, shall be taken 
away all life that he hath. Ezek. xviii. 4 : The soul that sinneth it 
shall die. 

31.] All the holy angels. — Luke xx. 36 : They (spirit born new 
creatures in Christ Jesus) are like the angels. 1 Thess. iii. 13 : 
At the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints. 

32.] All nations. — All the then nations of the earth., the same 
as all the nations of earth at the previous national judgment. 
Gen. vi. 3 : And the Lord said, my spirit shall not always strive 
with man, for that he also is flesh. 5 : And God saw that the 
wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagina- 
tion of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 : And 
it repented the Lord (the spirit word creation power Son of Jehovah 
God, who saw the wickedness as stated in ver. 5), that he had 
made man on the earth. (John i. 3 : All things made were made 
by him.) 7 : And the Lord said, I will destroy (annihilate as to 
life in any form) man. Gen. vii. 21 : And all flesh died, every 
man. 22 : All in whose nostrils Was the breath of life died. 23: 
Every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of 
the ground, both man and cattle, etc. Noah only remained alive, 
and they that were with him in the ark. Num. xxiii. 9 : Shall 
not be reckoned among the nations. Isa. xl. 15 : Behold, all the 
nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust 
of the balance. 17 : All nations before God are as nothing ; and 
they are counted to him (in value considering the cost of redemp- 
tion) less than nothing, and vanity. 6 : All flesh is grass (grass 
products fed upon form the mortal body), and all the goodliness 
thereof is as the flower of the field. 7 : Surely the people is grass. 
22 : The inhabitants of earth are as grasshoppers. 24 : The whirl- 
wind shall take them away as stubble. Isa. v. 24 : Therefore as 
the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, 



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so their root shall be rottenness, and their blossom soul unspirit 
born shall go up as dust, because they have cast away the law of 
the Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel 
(Dan. xii. 2 ; Gen. ii. 7 ; iii. 19 ; Mai. iv. 1 ; Eccles. xii. 7) : Obad. 
16 : They shall be as if they had not been. Luke xxi. 25 : Dis- 
tress of nations upon the earth. Matt. xxiv. 37 : But as the days 
of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. 38 : 
They were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, 
until the day Noah entered into the ark. The Lord plainly pro- 
claims in the preceding chapter that the destruction by fire of the 
earth with its air element a surrounding sea of flame will sweep 
all nations of people then on the earth, as in the Noahic flood. 
All nations, does not say or mean all that had been nations previ- 
ously, as Babel myth pagan Roman inquisition traditions of men 
false creeds towers of rotten body resurrection Babel slime, and 
endless hell torture teach. One from another. — Plainly stated in 
the twenty-fourth chapter previously. 40 : Then (the time spoken 
of in the twenty-fifth chapter) shall two be in the field (one spirit 
born holy, the other not) ; one shall be taken (by the angels of 
the Lord, like Lot taken by the angels from Sodom, as the Scrip- 
tures plainly teach, changed in a moment from their blood life 
probation bodies of flesh, and resurrected by the Lord in a spirit 
body like his (1 Cor. xv. 44, 50, 52), and the other left in his 
nature blood life body, to be consumed with the earth in a moment 
dead soul and body, when the word, Depart from me, is spoken. 
Acts xvii. 28 : For in God we live, and move, and have our being ; 
Negative, out of God's life rays probation nothing can live, or 
move, or have a being; of Adam's sin lust race of nations or devils. 

33.] Sheep. — By sheep are meant the elect spirit born holy ; 
and by goats, reprobates in their nature state, unspirit born, unholy, 
impure in thoughts and deeds. 

34.] From the. — Eph. i. 4 : According as God the Father hath 
chosen us in his Son Christ Jesus, before the foundation of the 
world, that we (spirit born of Christ's spirit life immortal seed love) 
should be holy, and without blame before him in love. 2 Tim. 
i. 9 : Who hath saved us, and called us (spirit born holy) with a 
holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own 
purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the 
world began : but is now made manifest by the appearing of our 
Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death (of all soul's spirit 
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Christ Jesus, 2 Cor. v. 17), and brought life and immortality to 
light through the gospel. 

35.] For Iioas. — Good works are not the cause of salvation, 
but they are the fruits of salvation (Horn. iii. 20 ; 2 Tim. i. 9). 
Eph. ii. 9 : Not of works, lest any man should boast. 10 : For we 
are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, 
which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. 
And their works, who are spirit born holy, brought forth by 
Christ's spirit impregnations of the soul's spirit intellect egg mind; 
such are approved of and crowned through grace. 

37.] When saw we. — This is spoken to show that the Lord work- 
eth in this reward of grace beyond all human apprehensiqji of the 
meek and unselfish imagination of the holy. And how much more 
than the value of any work, and without the merit of the person 
Matt. xxv. 11; Eph. iii. 20). 

40.] Unto me. — For you have done it for my sake, and in regard 
to my cause (Matt. x. 40, 42), and that all spirit born of Christ's 
seed, immortal spirit life of God, children of God who are like 
their nature bodies, begotten of woman's nature seed eggs when in 
infancy utterly helpless and dependent on their mother or others, 
matured for everything pertaining to food, clothing, warmth, help 
to move, etc. Thus the spirit born new creature in Christ Jesus 
(2 Cor. v. 17) is in its infancy while in blood life body shell, as 
fully dependent and helpless. John xv. 5 : Without me (Christ 
Jesus our heavenly spirit vine) ye can do nothing. 

41.] Depart from me. — Acts xvii. 28: In God we live and move 
and have^our being. That is the affirmative. Negative : out of 
God we cannot live, nor move, nor have a being. Thus, Depart from 
me, is the command to depart from life. Matt. x. 39 : He that find- 
eth his life (blood life and soul) shall lose it ; he that loseth his life 
for my sake shall find spirit life immortal. Into everlasting fire. — It 
does not say they shall exist there one moment. Num. xvi. 21 : That 
I may consume them in a moment. Deut. iv. 24 : The Lord our God 
is a consuming fire. Heb. xii. 29 : Our God is a consuming fire. 
Ps. xc. 2 : From everlasting to everlasting thou art God. 1 John 
iv. 16: God is love; his mercy endureth forever. Isa. v. 24: 
Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consum- 
eth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom 
(soul) shall go up as dust. Because they have cast away the law 
of the Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of 
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an oven ; and all the proud (proud popes, archbishops, or any 
other proud titled official of church and state Babel creeds, are in- 
cluded), yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble, and the 
day that cometh shall burn them up* saith the Lord of hosts (the 
best of authority infallible), that it shall leave them neither root- 
nor branch. Matt. iii. 12: But will burn up the chaff with un- 
quenchable fire (nothing can quench God's justice flame sword). 
Gen. iii. 24 : A flaming sword which turned every way, to keep 
the way to the tree of life. 22 : Lest Adam take also of the tree 
of life, and eat, and live forever. 19 : Dust thou art (Adam), 
and unto dust shalt thou return. Eccles. xii. 7 : Then shall the dust 
return to the earth as it was ; and the spirit (like sunlight at night 
death) shall return unto God who gave it. Ezek. xviii. 4, 20, 24, 
27 : The soul that sinneth it shall die. Job xxi. 30 : The wicked 
is reserved to the day of destruction. Ps. Ixviii. 2 : As smoke is 
driven away, so drive them away ; as wax melteth before the fire, 
so let the wicked perish at the presence of God. Ps. civ. 35 : 
Let the wicked be no more. Ps. cvi. 18 : The flame burnt up the 
wicked. Ps. cxlv. 20 : All the wicked he will destroy. Ps. xxxvii. 
20: Into smoke shall the wicked consume away. Obad. i. 1G: 
They shall be as though they had not been. 2 Pet. iii. 10 : The 
elements shall melt with fervent heat ; and the earth also and the 
works that are therein shall be burnt up. Rev. xx. 11 : And I 
saw a great white throne and him that sat on it, from whose face 
the earth and the heaven fled away ; and there was no place found 
for them. Rev. xxi. 6 : I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning 
and the end. 7 : He that overcometh shall inherit all things 
(heaven's stores are all common to all God's spirit born children, 
and in superabundance inexhaustible, like the water to the birds 
and beasts, as well as mortals all free). And I will be his God, 
and he shall be my son. 8 : But the fearful, and the unbelieving, 
and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers and sor- 
cerers, and idolaters, and all liars (nicknamers are liars), shall have 
their part in the lake which burnetii with fire and brimstone 
(illustrated by Sodom and Gomorrah), which is the second death, 
first blood life death, second death, soul death (Ezek. xviii. 4, 20, 
24, 27). The fire death was prepared for the devil and his angels ; 
all who join his army of darkness deeds shall perish with them, at 
the close of time's parenthesis probation, they are consumed in a 
moment. For the devil. — From this and other passages may be gath- 
ered, that there is a chief of the apostate and evil spirits (Matt. 
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44.] When saw we. — It is the property of hypocrites highly to 
boast of their works, but never to acknowledge their faults ; they 
cover their evil deeds under their outer show of righteousness ; 
they are the wolves with Babel creeds of men, and justify their 
evil deeds, as nicknaming others, as familiarity. 

46.] Everlasting punishment. — It is then a madness and sottish 
opinion to think that the wicked, yea, even the devils themselves, 
shall be resurrected from their soul death, and at last saved. Luke 
xx. 35 : But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that 
(resurrection heaven immortal spirit life) world, and the resurrec- 
tion from the dead (36) are equal unto the angels ; and are the 
children of God, being children of the resurrection. 38: For he 
is not a God of the dead, but of the living. Heb. ii. 14 : Foras- 
much then as the children (of God, spirit born of God holy) are 
partakers of flesh and blood (life of nature flesh bodies), he 
(Christ Jesus) also himself likewise took part. Woman's seed 
(Gen. iii. 15) spirit begotten of the nature woman's seed egg. All 
animate life on earth is germinated from the female egg, when 
quickened by male milt into nature resurrection blood life : if the 
female eggs are not thus quickened by male milt in contact with 
those female eggs, no nature life is possible, and thus it is with 
the probation soul spirit egg mind intellect, which must be in like 
manner quickened into immortal spirit life from God's quickening 
immortal spirit life rays, or there is no immortal life in them ; the 
fowl's female egg, when without a male, if set upon for six months 
by the female fowl diligently, produces no life whatever ; break 
the shell, and a resurrection of rottenness is all that comes up from 
it : thus the everlasting punishment, no life is ever resurrected 
from the soul spirit mind egg after blood life probation closes. It 
is the same as the unimpregnated with quickening resurrection 
animate nature life. Gal. vi. 7 : Be not deceived ; God is not 
mocked (with rotten body, or soul spirit egg minds resurrection to 
immortal spirit life). For whatsoever a man soweth that shall he 
also reap. 8 : For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh 
reap corruption (rottenness). But he that soweth to the spirit 
(of God, by faith prayers holy) shall of the spirit reap life ever- 
lasting. 15 : For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth 
anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. Heb. ii. 14 : 
Jesus also himself likewise took part of the same ; that through 
(blood life sacrifice holy) death he might destroy (annihilate) him 
that had the power of death, that is the devil. 1 Tim. vi. 16: 



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God only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man 
can approach unto. 2 Tim. i. 10 : Jesus Christ hath brought life 
and immortality to light through the gospel. John iv. 24 : God 
is a spirit. John v. 40 : And ye (incorrigibly wicked) will not 
come to me, that ye might have life (immortal spirit life when 
blood life's probation is ended). John iii. 5 : Except a man be 
born of water and of the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom 
of God. John vi. 63 : It is the spirit that quicken eth (to spirit 
life immortal the soul spirit egg mind) ; the flesh profiteth no- 
thing (if it was to be resurrected from rottenness dust, there would 
be some value in it, but that Babel creed of resurrecting to life 
again rotten bodies is like the saving the incorrigibly wicked, after 
blood life death, and their rotten egg soul mind is as void of life 
in any form as a rotten egg of nature life, or a rotten potato, or 
rotten apple, or any rotten body of animate or inanimate nature 
life). The words that I (Christ) speak unto you, they are spirit, 
and they are life immortal. 68 : Lord, to whom shall we go (but 
to thee for immortality) ? Thou hast the words of eternal life. 
John xi. 25 : Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection and the 
life (immortal) ; he that believeth in me, though he were dead 
(unquickened with immortal life milt love), yet shall he live (by 
way of belief, reception of immortal spirit life milt love impregna- 
tion of the soul's spirit egg mind). 26 : And whosoever liveth 
(while blood life continues) and believeth in me shall never die 
(negative, all other souls will die, Ezek. xviii. 4). The murderer 
sentenced to state's prison for life may be afterwards pardoned by 
the governor, but those hung by the neck until dead have a pun- 
ishment from which there is no reprieve ; it is an everlasting pun- 
ishment, for none of them ever are pardoned, nor can they return 
again to life. 1 Cor. xv. 22 : For as in Adam all die (all Adam's 
seed dies, and all who continue but nature Adamic beings all die), 
even so (in like manner as all Adam's seed dies, all Christ's spirit 
seed are immortal) in Christ (not out of Christ, unspirit born of 
God in Christ Jesus) shall all be made alive. But every man in 
his own order ; Christ the first (resurrection) fruits ; afterwards 
they that are Christ's at his coming (at blood life death). 26 : 
The last (no enemy beyond that) enemy that shall be destroyed is 
death. 28 : That God maybe all in all. If the devil and incor- 
rigibly wicked still then had a conscious existence they would be 
saved, but that is a Babel creed myth. 37 : Thou so west not that 
body that shall be. 44 : It is sown a natural body ; it is raised a 

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spiritual body. 47 : The first Adam was of the earth, earthy 
(Gren. iii. 19 : Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return). 
48 : As is the earthy, such are they that are earthy. And as is 
the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. The Babel 
creed that makes a hell of heaven by saving rotten bodies, and 
rotten souls, and devils, and death, say all are Christ's, and there- 
fore resurrected. What sayest thou, St. Paul, to that? Rom. viii. 
8 : So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. 9 : But 
ye (spirit .born of God holy) are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, 
if so be the spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have 
not the spirit of Christ, he is none of his. 13 : For if ye live 
after the flesh ye shall die ; but if ye through the spirit do mor- 
tify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. Isa. v. 24 : Their root 
shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust ; be- 
cause they (Babel creed mortals) have cast away the law of the 
Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. 
Dan. xii. 2 : Some to everlasting life, and some to a resurrection 
of rottenness (original Hebrew). The righteous holy spirit chil- 
dren begotten of God. 1 John v. 18 : Whosoever is born of God 
sinneth not ; he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and the 
wicked one toucheth him not. 19 : And we know that we (holy 
spirit born that sin not) are of God, and the whole (masses of 
Adam's sin lust race unspirit born) world lieth in wickedness. 
Positive, everlasting life promised to spirit born holy children of 
God (Dan. xii. 2 ; Matt. xix. 29 ; Luke xviii. 30 ; John iii. 16 ; 
iv. 14 ; v. 24 ; vi. 27, 40, 47 ; xii. 50 ; Acts xiii. 46 ; Rom. vi. 
22 ; Gal. vi. 8 ; 1 Tim. i. 16). Negative, must inevitably be 
everlasting death (Deut. xxx. 15). 



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2.] Passover. — Concerning this word paschal, Exod. xii. 11. 
The Son. — Christ arms his disciples against the apparent scandal 
and bitterness of the cross, and shows that he voluntarily without 
constraint presented himself to sacrifice the woman's seed spirit 
begotton Lamb of God, emblemized by the sacrifice of thousands 
of innocent, unblemished lambs for many centuries previous, for 
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past sins, and seek God through Christ the only mediator, with all 
their heart blood life power, for spirit birth life immortal seed re- 
demption from eternal death doom, to which all Adam's race is 
sentenced, that all such through him might receive immortal life 
from his Father, who alone could impart immortal spirit life, that 
could not die while allied to him. 

3.} Assembled together.- — In a public sitting of the great council, 
which judged the most weighty matters, as of a false prophet, 
which they accused Christ of being. This council consisted of 
seventy judges, besides the high priest and the chief magistrate of 
the people. (Num. xi. 16, 17, 24.) 

4.] By subtilty. — Covertly, and not openly, with a secret, strong, 
sinful compact. 

5.] The feast day. — In the six days of unleavened bread then 
ensuing the passover, which were not festival days, when the great- 
est numbers were assembled to witness their executions ; but here 
the priests advise not to proceed that way for fear of the rising of 
the people to oppose them in their horrid murder of the holy Jesus. 
But they quickly changed their opinions upon Judas's proffer. 

6.] Bethany. — Matt. xxi. 17. The leper. — He had no doubt 
been cured of the leprosy by the Lord. 

7.] There came. — John xii. 1, 2, 12. Box. — Alabaster pot, or 
vessel to contain anointing oil. Poured it. — To honor our Lord, 
according to the custom of those times. 

8.] His disciples. — John xii. 4. This is especially referred to 
Judas, who, it is likely, was the author of this murmuring. 

10.] A good work. — Jesus Christ, whose life was a true pattern 
and example of sobriety, does not waive the use of things conducing 
to delight, although they were costly. We must not then condemn 
the use of such things among believers, provided there be no in- 
ordinateness or excess, and that charity and love be not dimin- 
ished. 

11.] Always. — You have always opportunity to relieve the poor, 
when you will to do so, but as for this woman's seed blood life 
spirit begotten body, that will soon shed the blood life in these 
veins pulsated by my love heart, for all who will accept of my 
Father's conditional remission of sins, and receive spirit life im- 
mortal seed into their soul spirit egg minds, through their she soul 
will door ; soon all opportunity to offer kind oblations to this blood 
life body will cease forever. But I will bestow from my Father 
spirit life immortal on all who comply with my directions. 



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15.] Thirty pieces. — Thirty shekels (Zech. xi. 12 ; Exod. xxi. 
82). It seemeth there was some hidden mystery in this number, 
Christ having taken upon him the form of a servant, and because 
this was the set price for slaves that were killed. 

17.] The first day. — The fourteenth day of the first month, in 
the end of which they were to eat the paschal lamb (Exod. xii. 18; 
Lev. xxiii. 5 ; Num. ix. 3 ; Luke xxii. 7), which Christ Jesus 
strictly observed. When the sabbath occurred on the next day, 
the Jews sometimes adjourned the feast until after the sabbath, 
which they did on the occasion here referred to, as it appears by 
John xviii. 28 ; xix. 14. Therefore it is called the great day, the 
yearly feast, John xix. 31. 

18.] My time. — The fullness of the appointed time of the last 
sacrifice of atonement, and of which all previous lamb sacrifices 
were foreshadowing emblems. Therefore I celebrate it before the 
rest of the people. 

23.] That dippeth. — Now at this time, Ps. xli. 9 : Yea, mine 
own familiar friend in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, 
hath lifted up his heel against me. Glen. iii. 15 : Thou shalt 
bruise his heel. 

24.] Goeth. — To his death of the blood life seed of the woman's 
nature life egg (Gen. iii. 15 ; Heb. ii. 14). This is to occur in a 
short time, and this Jesus said that his disciples might understand 
that all these things occur by God's providence, not by chance or 
man's power. 

25.] Thou hast said. — I say not it is thee, but thou sayest so 
thyself. 

26.] Were eating. — The paschal lamb feast was also here closed 
forever, as to any further emblem beneficial remembrance thereof. 
And the new soul spirit egg mind, spirit birth, new creature life 
immortal celebration of the Lamb of God spirit begotten sacrifice, 
that opened a spiritual life immortal way whereby immortal life 
spirit impregnations might be imparted to the soul spirit egg minds 
of mortals of blood life earthy being, and the spirit born new crea- 
ture would pulsate through Christ, from God his Father immortal 
spirit life love. The ceremonies of the holy communion were taken 
from thence. Blessed it. — Mentally asked his Father's blessing 
(Matt. xiv. 19), which was done here by Christ, not so much in 
regard to the food of the body, as in regard to the food of the soul, 
to true spirit born holy believers, and receivers of his spirit life 
eternal truths, whereof this corporal bread was to be the sacrament 



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and seal, which was procured without the sacrifice of blood life, as 
in the former sacrifices (Mark xiv. 22 ; Luke xxii. 17, 19), or, as 
St. Paul saith, 1 Cor. x. 16, he blessed the bread as a sacrament 
of the souFs spirit food for the new spirit born creature life immor- 
tal from God. Brake it. — Emblem of the breaking into the body 
of Jesus, to empty out its blood life spiritual sacrifice, in unison 
with woman's seed, thereby to crush the serpent's head (Gen. iii. 
15; Heb. ii. 14; 1 Cor. xi. 24). This is. — This bread which is 
consecrated by me, is the sacrament of my body, offered as an ex- 
piatory sacrifice for you true spirit born believers ; together with 
the sign use in true believers (Gen. xvii. 10 ; Exod. xii. 11 ; xl. 15 ; 
1 Cor. x. 16 ; Eph. v. 26). My body.— My flesh (John vi. 58, 
54), to which Christ addeth his blood. Not only to show himself 
whole by these two parts (Heb. ii. 14), but chiefly to show that his 
body in this sacrament ought to be considered and apprehended by 
faith, as offered in true sacrifice of expiation, in which the blood 
was to be spilt, and the flesh of the thing offered to be cut in 
pieces. 1 Cor. xi. 24 : Christ comprehendeth his whole person, 
with his merit, obedience, satisfaction , expiation benefits, wherein 
consists the true food of the soul, received to a spiritual impregna- 
tion of the soul's spirit mind egg intellect, which is formed by the 
union of blood life, and Spirit of God life immortal, impregnation 
spirit love, which spirit life immortal impregnation of the soul 
mind egg, under the brooding baptism of the Holy Spirit dove de- 
velops a new spirit creature which thereby partakes of the nature 
of its begetter, who alone hath immortality to impart (2 Cor. v. 17 ; 
Gal. vi. 15 ; 1 Tim. vi. 16 ; 1 John v. 18 ; 2 Tim. i. 10), which 
spirit life immortal gospel promise of God immutable, received by 
way of the soul's blood life mortals will door into the spirit egg in- 
tellectual mind, produces the new spirit creature with immortal 
life, that lives eternally whilst it pulsates spirit love, and is re- 
ceived to a spiritual, everlasting life by the word of God, by way 
of faith, trusting in and relying upon the same, which also unites 
Christ unto it, as food is united to the blood life continuance. 
John iii. 5 ; vi. 63, 68 ; xv. 5 : I am the vine, ye are the branches ; 
he that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much 
fruit ; for without me ye can do nothing. 6 : If a man abide not 
in me (during blood life probation, Ezek. xviii. 24) he is cast 
forth as a branch, and is withered ; and men gather them, and cast 
them into the fire, and they are burned. Clearly showing that 
Adam's race of mortals are like a branch of a tree in their unspirit 

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born state, and, like nature wood, are easily consumed ; also as 
stubble and chaff (Isa. v. 24 ; Mai. iv. 1 ; Matt. iii. 12 ; John 
xvii. 20, 21 ; Gal. ii. 20 ; Eph. iii. 17). 

27.] Drink ye all of it. — Popish Roman Catholic priests, with 
their Babel pope creeds of men, change it to, Drink me all of it : 
pure self-pharisaism. 

28.] For this. — A reason why he commandeth them to partici- 
pate of this cup, because that it is the sacrament of the true blood 
of the covenant of grace, opposite to the figurative blood of the 
ancient covenant of the law (Exod. xxiv. 8). Of the new. — Upon 
which is grounded the everlasting spirit birth covenant of God 
with men, manifested and given out in a new manner, more clearly, 
powerfully, and fully, under the gospel than under the law emblems 
(Jer. xxxi. 31 ; Heb. viii. 8). Is shed, — Must and will shortly 
be shed in deed, as it it is now prospectively shed. John ii. 9 : 
The water that was made wine ; I have no doubt but pure water 
the Lord would turn into spiritual wine of far better quality, yes, 
infinitely better, than the liquor and drugs used as sacramental 
wine. 

29.] Henceforth. — Behold, this is the last meal that I shall 
make with you in this world, to testify unto you my love, and 
leave you a perpetual pledge of myself, until I receive you in spirit 
bodies glorified in heaven, as each closes faithfully their probation 
blood life journey on earth, which shall be new ones like the 
angels of God (Luke xx. 36; xiv. 15; Matt. viii. 11 ; Rev. iii. 
20 ; xix. 9). Now though Jesus did eat sometimes after his res- 
urrection with his disciples, yet that was not as being still a neces- 
sity to preserve animal body blood life of nature ; for the blood 
life and blood of Jesus was all shed on Calvary to redeem his 
chosen children who obey his proclamation of conditional pardon, 
and receive by faith belief spirit life immortal birth (Luke xxiv. 
39 ; John i. 13). Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will 
of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. 1 John v. 18 : 
"We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not. The flesh 
and bones body, resurrected by the spirit life eternal of Christ. 
John x. 18 : No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of 
myself. 11 : The good shepherd giveth his (blood) life for his 
sheep. 28 : Shed for many, not all, as taught by Babel men creeds. 

30.] A hymn. — Which, the Jewish writers say, was one or more 
of David's psalms. 

31.] Offended. — Deny that they will longer rely upon one so 






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seeming weak, abject, and wretched, in worldly respect; nor by- 
reason of my doctrine, contrary to the sense of the flesh, and 
mortal life capacities of nature intellect minds in their benighted 
state, before spirit life immortal light illuminates the spirit born 
new love pulsating creature child of God. 

32.] / am risen. — He comforts their sorrowing minds with a 
resurrection of his earthly body void of blood life, as proof of his 
spirit life immortal power. Ps. xvi. 10 : For thou wilt not leave 
my soul in hell (the grave). Neither wilt thou suffer thy holy 
one to see corruption (rottenness, as all Adam's sin lust race do). 
Ps. xlix. 9 : That he should live forever and not see corruption 
(Acts ii. 27 ; xiii. 35). 

35.] Said all the disciples. — Being impulsed by blood life zeal 
and vain self-reliance presumption. 

36.] Gethsemane. — It was on the Mount of Olives. 

37.] Sorrowful. — In his human nature blood life, which had 
nature affections, except sin (Heb. ii. 18; iv. 15). Christ's union 
with his Father was not suspended a moment, but the spirit be- 
gotten body called Jesus, which was the medium of nature blood 
life communication with mortals by way of the woman's seed, the 
blood life body of Jesus suffered, but the spirit word power of God 
spirit Son did not suffer, but the spirit connection with the nature 
body spirit begotten sympathized with the suffering body until 
blood life was shed for the remission of the sins of all truly repent- 
ant of past sins, and who diligently with all their hearts seek in 
God's appointed way for spirit birth life eternal. The blood life 
body of Jesus felt the same attachment to retain its life powers that 
all blood life feels at the approach of danger or death ; but its spirit 
governor readily used its power to lay down the blood life a sacri- 
fice for those who would avail themselves of the provision, and to 
take up from the grave before corruption rottenness dissolved it 
into its original gases and refuse dust, as doth corruption all other 
earthly blood life beings. That blood life body of Jesus cried out, 
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me ? Ps. xxii. 1 : By 
an unsearchable dispensation of infinite love, that volunteered to 
let the spirit begotten holy blood life humanity suffer, to give God's 
holy justice irrevocable law satisfaction for the sins of all the elect 
(Gal. iii. 13 ; Isa. liii. 6, 10), or to open a spirit life door. 

38.] And watch. — To be witness of my suffering, and to be in- 
structed and strengthened by my example. How few watch and 
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39.] my Father. — A pure nature blood life desire in Jesus, 
the sacrificial spirit begotten of woman's seed, man (Gen. iii. 15). 
Woman's seed egg of mortal life was by that word spoken in Eden 
by the Lord God, impregnated, and produced the spirit begotten 
body of Jesus, the same as vegetation life (Gen. i. 11) and ani- 
mate blood life. Gen. i. 20, 24 ; ii. 7 : Formed man of the dust 
(Heb. ii. 14 ; Matt. iii. 16). And besides that, this desire that 
the death sacrifice humiliation apparent, and for but a moment as 
it were, might pass, was only conditional under the will of God, 
accepted of by Christ ; but from the contemplation of which Jesus 
was awhile diverted by the extremity of horrors. Therefore, there 
was no sin in it, but only a short conflict of nature blood life, pre- 
sently overcome by reason and firm will, and full surrender without 
a reserve to his Father's will (John iii. 16). Thus must all spirit 
born do. 

41.] The spirit. — The operation of God's Spirit, which is in you, 
in zeal and holy desire, is indeed very fervent and vigorous ; but it 
is counterpoised by the oppositions of our remiss and restless nature. 
Wherefore you might be easily overcome, if you do not by secret 
prayer to God obtain strength. John xv. 5 : As you readily see, 
without me ye can do nothing ; and by your unwatchfulness you 
did not keep yourselves from the ambushes and surprises of the 
wicked one (Gal. v. 17). 

42.] my Father. — The extremity of his passion enforcing 
that prayer : Thy will be done, not mine. 

43.] Were heavy. — Poor human nature was worn out by grief 
(Luke xxii. 45). 

45.] Sleep on. — Ironical kind of speech, as if he had said, I 
could not awake you by my words ; here are other people who will 
awake you in another manner. 

46.] Let us he going. — Not to run away, but to go and meet my 
enemies. Thus he showeth his free will to offer the spirit begotten 
woman's seed blood life sacrifice to death, after he had overcome 
and ruled all human affection into subjection to the spirit word 
Son of God. 

47.] Swords and staves. — War implements of devils' invention, 
to cause evil nature self rulers to lord it over those unarmed for 
the war strife death, or by overpowering numbers to enslave the 
human will. 

50.] Friend, — Ironically he calls Judas by the name friend, 
which by the proffered kiss he pretended to be ; as have untold 



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thousands who have betrayed virtue, that they if a friend truth- 
fully would have died to protect from such demon hypocrisy. 
Thus Jesus, by the word friend, upbraided the ingratitude of the 
accessory murderer. 

51.] One of them. — Peter (John xviii. 10). 

52.] That take. — Mortals who make a business of war sooner 
or later fall by their foes. 

53.] Tivelve. — A legion imports the number of about six thou- 
sand men chosen for war, which was the number of a Roman 
army, which Christ perhaps referred to, as a legion for each. 

56.] Was done. — He shows all this was ordered by the hand 
of God, and that their madness had before that time prevailed 
against him, if they had gotten power from God, who had not 
given it till then, because the time appointed had not previously 
come. Of the prophets. — Those who had written of Christ's suf- 
ferings and passion. Forsook him. — A lively image of our weak- 
ness. John xv. 5 : For without me ye can do nothing. All 
blood life mortal strength, without Christ's aid, is as dust. 

57.] Caiaphas. — This was he who gave counsel to take Jesus 
and put him to death. 

59.] Sought false. — Matthew shows that Christ Jesus was un- 
justly accused, and that perjured suborned witnesses with their 
utterly false devil tare seed lies witness falsely, as many perjured 
villains perpetrate robberies from the holy even at this day, and 
the devil's tare seed unclean spirit liars slander and nickname the 
virtuous and good. Jesus never committed one sin, but volun- 
teered through infinite love and mercy to pay for us who have 
received spirit birth life from him the sin debts we could not 
pay. 

60.] Found none. — Well agreeing, and that conformed to the 
law of two or three witnesses, whereby they might legally condemn 
him (Deut. xvii. 6). 

61.] I am able. — They falsify the words and subvert Christ's 
meaning, for what Christ had spoken of the temple of his body 
that they attribute to the material temple, and therefore are truth- 
fully called perjured false witnesses. 

63.] Held, his peace. — Bearing the calumnies patiently, and be- 
ing disposed not to hinder nor stay the prefixed hour of the blood 
life holy sacrificial death. 

64.] Hereafter. — At my second coming to judge the nations 
then on the earth alive. It will then plainly appear what I am, 



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wliicli you now ask me with vehement evil nature derision and 
malice to surprise me and have a pretence to condemn me, as your 
associates have heretofore done when they nicknamed me Beelze- 
bub, because I cast out devils and unclean spirits, tare seed chil- 
dren of the devil, the same as they his then accusers were. Of 
power. — The name of Grod as used among the Jews. 

65.] Rent. — To feign great zeal and wrathfulness, as against a 
great blasphemy, as they used to do when they saw or heard of 
some cruel act (Ezra ix. 3 ; Jer. xxxvi. 24). 

67.] Did they spit. — As it were in detestation upon a con- 
demned malefactor. No mortal with the power Jesus could have 
called into action in a moment even to destroy his vile demon ac- 
cusers, and the whole rebel race of Adam, and all the devils and 
unclean spirits in existence. Yet still mercy and love prevailed, 
and we who are spirit born on earth to-day should love more and 
adore more and more each day the glorified spirit word and spirit 
begotten Son of Grod, the Holy Grhost, who with the infinite love 
consent of the Sovereign of the universe opened up a narrow 
spirit life holy way through the precious holy blood Jesus shed on 
Calvary for all who are spirit born of his spirit love immortal life 
good spirit love seed (Matt. xiii. 38 ; John iii. 5 ; xv. 5 ; Rom. 
viii. 9 ; 1 Cor. xv. 23, 44). 

68.] Saying. — After they had covered his face, they outraged 
and mocked him in that manner, that he might not be esteemed as 
a prophet (Mark xiv. (T5). 

70.] But he denied. — This is another example of our helpless 
infirmity ; like the infant for months after its birth, utterly depend- 
ent, thus are we spirit born children of God in Christ Jesus, with- 
out his constant aid we are utterly helpless. Pray always then ; 
be ever in love's suppliant attitude, dependence on Christ (John 
xv. 5). 

71.] Of Nazareth. — The vile unclean evil tare seed children 
of the devil, that nicknamed Christ Jesus Beelzebub, as the devil's 
children love to gratify their evil nature devil within them to-day 
by nicknaming persons and places. They loved to call Jesus a 
Nazarene ; this was given him by the evil unclean devil spirit, 
popular among devils, scorn from the name of the city, Nazareth, 
that is holy and consecrated to Glod. No broad-way to hell travel- 
ler loves holiness, therefore a holy person they hate and nickname 
him and his home. 

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being most of theni of that country where the Lord was also most 
frequently conversant (John vii. 52). 

74.] To curse. — He began to denounce the Lord Jesus Christ 
with blasphemous language, execrations and imprecations upon 
himself. And to swear. — From which we see that if we do not 
acknowledge our fault after we have offended, we proceed from an 
evil to a worse condition, until we even come to blasphemy, or 
hatred, or disregard for holiness life, if God's pitying mercy 
does not reach after and save us, as drowning Peter. 

75.] Wept Utterly. — That is, he was powerfully and to the life 
affected with repentance. 



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1.] To put Mm to death. — That is, to conclude of the manner 
of his death, for they had already concluded that he must die. 

2.] Delivered him. — For the Romans had left the Jews power 
of examining the crimes of such as were malefactors of their own 
nation, but had reserved the power of condemning them to death 
and the execution thereof to themselves and to their magistrates 
(John xviii. 31). The governor. — As a proctor or overseer of the 
emperor's affairs, for there were some provinces referred to Cassar, 
distinct from those which belonged to the people of Rome, whose 
governors were chosen by the people (Luke iii. 1). 

3.] Repented himself. — With that kind of grief and repent- 
ance which proceedeth only from the wound of conscience, and the 
feeling of injustice and fear of God's wrath, without any love to 
goodness, conversion, faith, or hope in his mercy ; which kind of 
repentance can produce nothing but death (2 Cor. vii. 10). 

4.] See thou to that. — Behold, how hypocrites do connive at 
and flatter themselves, casting all the fault upon their copartners. 

5.] Cast down. — Judas felt the bribery silver was as fire tor- 
ments that he would rid himself of, but he was without hope of 
forgiveness and had no helper against his enemy the devil, or in- 
bred evil nature lust for gains, and his blood life was as hell-fire 
torture. 



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6.] It is not lawful. — Hypocrites are very conscientious in 
trivial things, of dress and outward appearance of sanctity to the 
law and opinions of their fellow sinners, but not in shedding inno- 
cent blood. Treasury. — The Greek coi-bana, a Syriac word, which 
signifies the place where they laid up and kept the gifts and offerings 
which were made to the temple, and consecrated things. 

7.] The potter 's field. — It was some field that was so called for 
an unknown cause. Strangers. — Heathens, from whom the Jews 
by a custom were separated even after their death, though there is 
no express law of God for it (Gen. iii. 19), being only dust. 

9.] Jeremy the prophet. — Plainly, in the Scriptures the favored 
Jews had, was recorded their vile wicked acts. Valued. — Who, 
though an Israelite by birth, and in part by Boaz in the woman's 
seed descent (Gen. iii. 15), but in Ruth of Gentile descent, yet 
the Jews bought the life of Jesus' blood life sacrifice at the same 
rate as by the law they ransomed a poor slave's life that was a 
stranger (Exod. xxi. 32). If the ox shall push a man servant, he 
shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox 
shall be stoned. 

11.] Thou say est. — It is a species of assent to what another 
saith, or asketh, or I acknowledge it; for Christ was truly their 
spiritual king, that they rejected, and by descent in David's line, 
perhaps the rightful temporal king, if they had not been subju- 
gated to the Roman government, by way of transgressions previ- 
ously against God's law. 

12.] He answered nothing. — Bearing their slanders and vile evil 
devil nature mockings and buffetings, with forbearance that no 
mortal of Adam's race, with his power at hand to destroy them all 
in a moment with a word, would have borne, unless aided by the 
Lord thus to do, and not to stay the appointed hour of his sacri- 
ficial offering for the atonement for the sins of all repentant spirit 
born holy believers. 

15.] At that feast. — At the passover. 

16.] They had. — Barabbas was most likely a Jew they had 
previously put into Pilate's hands. 

17.] Or Jesus. — The governor thought they would be ashamed 
to demand a murderer should be let loose unto them rather than 
Jesus, showing the vileness of men tradition creeds that regard not 
God's commands of love and mercy, even to vile enemies. 

24.] That he could. — Or that all he might say was unavailing 
with men creed fanatics. He took ivater. — A vain ceremony, to 



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show that he protested himself to be innocent of his death, to 
which he was forced by the Jewish rabble masses (Deut. xxi. 6). 

25.] His blood. — If there be injustice in crucifying him, we 
Jews take all the guilt and punishment thereof upon ourselves, 
and on our children. 

26.] When he had, — Having first sought to appease the people's 
fury by this smaller punishment, as for a slight fault { Lukj xxiii. 16 ; 
John xix. 1). Or he caused him to be scourged for a kind of torture 
(afterwards practiced by the Roman priests on saints) used before 
execution, to get the whole truth out of the delinquent, then in use 
in Rome in such cases ; they used rods or wands for free persons, 
and whips for slaves, of which Jesus had taken the former upon 
him (Phil. ii. 7). 

28.] A scarlet robe. — Which might have been a centurion's or 
sergeant's, who then wore that color, which being likewise the 
color of kings' habits, and soldiers would scoff at Jesus because he 
had styled himself to be king of the Jews (Luke xxiii. 11). But 
perhaps God's secret providence suffered all this to occur ; first, 
that Jesus presented himself before God's judgment-seat in a 
strange vesture, namely, as a sinner, and a pledge for the sins of 
all who by way of his sacrificial atonement availed themselves 
through faith of immortal spirit life's new spirit creature being, 
spirit born of their soul's spirit egg mind's impregnation of God's 
spirit life immortal. 1 Tim. vi. 16: Who only hath immortality, 
dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto. 2 Tim. 
i. 10 : But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour 
Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death (of those who were with 
all Adam's race sentenced to death (Gen. iii. 19, 22, 24, that re- 
ceive life immortal soul spirit egg mind spirit life impregnation 
from God, in his spirit life gospel proclamation word, when by 
faith received through blood life's will door into the belief mind), 
and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. 
Isa< liii. 6 : And the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. 
12 : He was numbered with transgressors : and he bore the sins of 
many (not all, as false men creeds teach), and made intercession 
for the transgressors (2 Cor. v. 21 ; Isa. liii. 3, 4, 5, 7). Fully de- 
scribing what took place at Jesus' death. 

29.] A reed. — Instead of a sceptre, which was also done in mock- 
ery. To teach us that Christ governeth his kingdom on earth 
by very weak means, and despiseth the powers of this world, 
kings, popes, and college bred officials, B.D.'s, with all their hay, 
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wood, stubble, chaff, creeds of men, and Babel tower of rotten 
bodies. 1 Cor. i. 18-31 inclusive: That no flesh should glory in 
his presence. 

31.] To crucify him. — The cross was a punishment wherewith 
the cruel tare seed children of the devil, the Romans, punished 
their slaves, and such as were seditious disturbers of the peace. 
The crime whereof Jesus was accused ; who had voluntarily made 
himself a servant (Luke xxiii. 2 ; Isa. xlix. 7 ; Phil. ii. 7). 

32.] Cyrene. — Of Cyrene in Africa. Him they compelled. — 
According to the custom of those days. To bear. — The custom 
of the Romans was, that malefactors carry their cross to the place 
of execution. But Jesus being so faint in blood life nature, that 
had become exhausted by the long continued pressure of sin bur- 
dens for those he would atone for with his blood life sacrifice, 
this poor man was compelled to help carry the cross (Luke xxiii. 
26 ; John xix. 17), carrying the hind part of the cross, as do all 
spirit born figuratively (Matt. x. 38 ; Col. i. 24), though not in 
like manner. 

33.] Of a skull. — So called, likely, by there being many bones 
of executed men there. 

34.] Vinegar. — A vessel of vinegar stood there ordinarily 
(John xix. 29), for a little relaxation of the severe tortures of the 
crucified. These same Roman devils in human form practiced by 
way of their inquisition tortures of Christians, that like Jesus 
they denounced as a heretic for centuries ; and then proclaimed 
their devil god, that would resurrect their refuse and torture them 
eternally. Such abominable mockery of God, who is love, good- 
ness, holiness, justice, mercy unending, as he daily proves before 
all living on earth, all Babel men creeds called orthodox still pro- 
claim, for fear of being called a heretic to creed faith. Gall. — 
The demon soldiers of Rome mixed gall with the vinegar, through 
devil insolence, and in a scoffing way. Luke xxiii. 36 : After he 
was nailed on the cross he took the bitter cup. John xix. 30 : 
And waited the hour appointed when blood life of woman's seed 
egg (Gen. iii. 15), impregnated by the word uttered in Eden, 
thereby being spirit begotten, shed that pure blood life as the 
closing sacrifice for sin. 

35.] Casting lots. — For Jesus' coat without seam. Ps. xxii. 
18: They cast lots for my vesture. 16: For dogs have com- 
passed me ; the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me ; they 
pierced my hands and my feet. 19 : Be not thou far from me, 



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Lord ; my strength, haste thee to help me. 29 : All they that 
go down to the dust (unspirit born unholy who are not immortal) 
shall bow before him, and none can keep alive his own soul. Thus 
clearly showing the meaning of Isa, xlv. 23. Every knee shall 
bow in death, that goes down to the dust, that are not spirit born 
of God in Christ. Gen. iii. 19 : Dust thou art, and to dust shalt 
thou mortal return. John xix. 24 ; fulfilled, Ps. xxii. 18. 

36.] They watched. — Because those put to death by the cross 
lingered in pain a great while, no doubt the devil's invention by 
one- of his children, as also taught by his servant antichrist, the 
man of sin, who taught in Rome first the eternal torture of the 
heretics, as a part of their Babel creed of Satan's inspiration to 
the pope of the church (of hell), not Christ the life and the truth 
and the way. John xi. 25 ; vi. 53 : Except ye eat the flesh (spirit 
word truth) of the Son of man, and drink his blood (spirit love), 
ye have no life in you. All unspirit born are dying gradually 
each day after birth of nature blood life. Each pulsation leaves one 
less, each breath leaves one less, of their limited probation number. 
Gen. iii. 19 : Dust thou art, mortal. The cruel cross torture 
was by driving spikes through their hands, spread wide apart, and 
through their feet, by which they hung in horrid agony, until the 
soldiers, tired of waiting, broke their limbs, too severe torture for 
blood life to endure long ; such tortures intensified the Roman 
Catholic inquisition practiced during the dark ages, on thousands 
of Christ's spirit begotten children. 

37.] His accusation. — It was the custom to place upon the cross 
the cause of the crucifixion in writing. Pilate's inscription was 
truth, but showed no cause whatever of death. 

42.] Me saved. — Thereby they acknowledged themselves, though 
titled by their Babel men tradition false creed, chief priests, scribes, 
D.D.'s and elders, to be children of the devil. John viii. 44 : Ye 
are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will 
do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the 
truth, because there was no truth in him. If those Jewish priests 
and people had been even of good human moral character decency, 
they would not have mocked the Lord Jesus in such agony, with a 
lie that he could not save himself, and admitted the truth that be 
had saved others. 

43.] He trusted. — This was a grievous temptation of the devil 
in them, whereby they sought to bring the feeble dying blood life 
body from woman's seed, Gen. iii. 15, spirit begotten, that they 



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had pierced with thorns and ruthless horrid iron spikes, into de- 
spair, taking thereby if they could his confident reliance upon God 
his spirit Father. But his power that moment could have hurled 
them and earth into chaos. 

44.] The thieves.— One of them (Luke xxiii. 39). This is a 
form of speaking called synecdoche, whereby he attributeth to 
both that which was proper but to one. 

45.] The sixth hour. — Which was at noon, or midday. Dark- 
ness. — Not by any natural eclipse, the moon being then at the full, 
but a supernatural miracle, to show that the heavenly spirit sun of 
righteousness and immortal spirit life, spirit word of God Almighty, 
sovereign of the universe creation power Son ; that had said Let 
there be light, and there was light. The sun that then would have 
expired in eternal chaos night, had its Creator in truth expired ; it 
was the shadow of death development, when the blood life of the 
spirit begotten woman's seed body expired, a sacrifice for his spirit 
begotten, and that should thereafter thereby become immortal 
children of God. Or Satan's darkness power might have been 
permitted to darken the atmosphere (Luke xxii. 53). And like- 
wise to show Christ's infinite power alliance with his Father, and 
the horrid crime of the Jews in his death. Over all the land. — 
Most affirm that it was over all the world ; others think that the 
darkness pervaded Judea only, and the countries thereabouts, 
where Satan's hosts assembled. 

46.] Eli. — These words of Ps. xxii. 1 are here related in the 
Syriac tongue, which in those days was more frequently used than 
the pure Hebrew. My God. — The full explanation will be found 
in the prophetic words of the psalmist, Ps. xxii. 1. Forsaken. — 
That was as if he had said, I, Jesus, never committed one sin ; why 
should I suffer sin's death penalty ? not endless hell fires surely. 
But he clearly knew it was a volunteer sacrifice of his blood life, 
to save his spirit begotten children, and thereby also to destroy all 
the foes of God. Heb. ii. 14 : Forasmuch then as the children are 
partakers (in this blood life earthly) of flesh and blood, Jesus also 
himself likewise took part (woman's seed, Gen. iii. 15) of the 
same ; that through death (of the blood woman's seed life spirit 
begotten power) he might destroy him that had the power of death, 
that is the devil. 

47.] This man. — Whether those who made these remarks were 
scoffers or strangers, is not stated. 

50.] Cried. — Luke xxiii. 46: Father, into thy hands I com- 



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mend my spirit (John xix. 30). Yielded up. — The soul spirit life, 
the Holy Ghost, returned to God that gave it (Eccles. xii. 7), will- 
ingly, after he had fulfilled a perfect obedience to his heavenly 
Father (Phil. ii. 8). 

51.] The veil. — Which separated the holy place from the most 
holy, in the temple (Exod. xxvi. 31 ; 2 Chron. iii. 14). And this 
breach came by miracle for a sign that by the death of Christ all 
mosaic ceremonies were annihilated ; among which the chief was 
the secret service which was yielded to God within his sanctuary. 
And besides to show that the heavenly sanctuary was open to all 
true believers, and receivers of spirit life immortal birth holiness 
that sinneth not; to direct their prayers and spiritual service 
directly to the God of heaven (Heb. ix. 8 ; x. 19, 20, 22). Rocks 
rent. — All things in nature gave testimony to the majesty of the 
Son of God, and showed the ingratitude and obdurateness of the 
Jews. A heathen philosopher is said then to have exclaimed, 
when the sun was obscured by darkness, and rocks were rent, The 
God of nature suffers. 

52.] Which slept. — -This verse is clearly an interpolation by 
some Babel creed sect, or it is incorrectly translated ; and the next 
verse contradicts its occurrence as stated at the death of the Saviour. 
The 53d verse says that they came out of their graves after Christ 
had raised by spirit life eternal power of God the flesh and bones 
body, void of life blood as a medium still of communicating his 
spirit life mysteries to his disciples. Luke xxiv. 39 : A spirit 
hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have. And the next 28th 
chapter describes the resurrection that was the first. And then as 
now no mortal in a blood life flesh body can comprehend or see a 
spirit, nor a spirit body ; and because Christ the spirit word Son 
of God, creation power. John i. 3 : All things were made by him 
(in time's creation), and without him was not anything made that 
was made. Therefore his spirit creation power word (Gen. iii. 15) 
begat the woman's seed body of Jesus, in whom his infinite love 
was veiled to fulfill (Heb. ii. 14). He likewise took part of the 
same ; that through death (as heretofore stated), he might destroy 
(annihilate at the close of time) him that had the power of death, 
that is the devil. And Gen. iii. 19 : Dust thou art, and unto dust 
shalt thou return. Eccles. xii. 7 : Then shall the dust return to the 
earth as it was ; and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. 
Luke xxiii. 46 : Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit. 
John x. 17 : I lay down my blood life that I might take it, my 

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spirit life, again, freed of blood life. 18 : No man taketh it from me, 
but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I 
have power to take it again. This commandment have I received 
of my Father. 1 Cor. xv. 20 : But now is Christ risen from the 
dead (not the dead are raised), and become the first fruits of them 
that slept. 23 : Christ the first fruits ; afterward they that are 
Christ's at his coming (at blood life death). 35 : How are the dead 
raised up, and with what body do they come ? 36 : Thou fool (even 
vegetation life is a positive proof that the seed sown is not in body 
raised). 37 : And that which thou so west, thou so west not that 
body that shall be. 44 : It is sown a natural body ; it is raised a 
spiritual body. 46 : That was not first which is spiritual, but that 
which is natural ; and afterward that which is spiritual. 47 : The 
first man is of the earth earthy. Gen. iii. 19 : Dust thou art, and 
unto dust shalt thou return (imperative statute law of God). The 
second man is the Lord from heaven. 48 : As is the earthy, such 
are they that are earthy. Gal. vi. 7 : Be not deceived, God is not 
mocked ; for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. 
8 : For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corrup- 
tion (rottenness) ; but he that soweth to the spirit shall of the 
spirit reap life everlasting. 15 : For in Christ Jesus neither cir- 
cumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. 
And as is the heavenly, such are they that are heavenly. 49 : And 
as we have borne the image of the earthy (son like the earthy 
father) ; we shall also bear the (spirit body) image of the 
heavenly (spirit life immortal Father). 50 : Flesh and blood can- 
not inherit the kingdom of God. Bom. viii. 1 : There is there- 
fore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus (new 
creature, 2 Cor. v. 17), who walk not after the flesh, but after the 
spirit. 6 : For to be carnally minded is death ; but to be spirit- 
ually minded (spirit egg mind impregnated with spirit life immor- 
tal) is life and peace. 7 : Because the carnal ( Adamic nature 
blood life lust sin begotten) mind is enmity against God ; for it is 
not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. 8 : So then 
they that are in the flesh cannot please God. (Then Babel creed 
mortal, why resurrect the rotten body, which if the soul inhabit it 
again, it will, while therein, be displeasing to God) ? 9 : But ye 
(spirit born, John iii. 5) are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if 
so be the spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man (in the 
church, or out of it) have not the spirit of Christ, he is none of 
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1 Tim. vi. 16: God only hath immortality, dwelling in the light 
which no man can approach unto. Matt. xiii. 37 : Jesus said, He 
that soweth the good seed is the Son of man. 38 : The good seed 
are the children of the kingdom ; but the tares are the children 
of the wicked one. «39 : The enemy that sowed them is the devil. 
40 :. As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire, 
so shall it be in the end of this world. Lake xx. 35 : They which 
shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrec- 
tion from (not of, as the false rotten body Babel creeds of men, 
pagan, and Roman Catholic priest reformers, tradition of popery 
creeds as found to-day ; worshipers of rotten mortal bodies, in the 
place of the pagan wooden gods wrought in the image of man) 
the dead (at blood life death). 36 : They are equal unto the 
angels ; and are the children of God, being the children of 
the resurrection ; Babel creeds teach that the wicked rotten 
dead are resurrected (flatly contradicting the aforesaid Scriptures 
of truth). 38 : For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living. 
John iii. 3 : Jesus said, Except a man be born again (by way of 
his spirit love seed, sown in the soul's spirit egg mind through the 
soul's ears or eyes, will door, and willingly, cheerfully, heartily 
believed as truth, fully received intellectually, which quickens the 
mind egg with immortal spirit life from God, which new spirit born 
new love peace intellectual creature), he cannot see the kingdom 
of God. 5 : Except a man be born of water and the spirit he 
cannot enter into the kingdom of God. Statute imperative law of 
the spirit God Sovereign of the universe, who alone can impart to 
the mortal's soul immortal life spirit birth impregnation seed, by 
way of Christ Jesus his spirit word and only spirit begotten Son. 
6 : That which is born of the flesh is flesh ; and that which is born 
of the spirit is spirit (not flesh body). John iv. 24 : God is a 
Spirit ; and they that worship him must worship him in spirit (not 
with noisy body worship) and in truth (not with false Babel men 
creeds). John v. 34 : But I receive not testimony from man, but 
these things I say that ye might be saved. 40 : And ye will not 
come to me, that ye might have life. John vi. 63 : It is the 
spirit that quickeneth ; the flesh profiteth nothing. (If, as Babel 
creeds of men teach, the flesh bodies were to be raised, the flesh 
would profit something.) The words that I speak unto you, they 
are spirit, and they are life. 6 3 : Lord, to whom shall we go ? 
Thou hast the words of eternal life, which^he wicked receive not. 
John viii. 12: Jesus said, I am the light of the world; he that 



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folio weth mc shall not walk in darkness (death), but shall have the 
light of life. 15 : Ye judge after the flesh. 21 : Jesus said, Ye 
shall seek me, and shall die in your sins ; whither I go, ye cannot 
come. 23 : Ye are from beneath, I am from above ; ye are of 
this world ; I am not of this world. John xy. 5 : I am the vine, 
ye are the branches ; he that abideth in me (not in the grave, with 
corruption), and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit; 
for without me ye can do nothing. 6 : If a man abide not in me, 
he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered, and men gather them, 
and cast them into the fire, and they are burned as in a moment. 
John xi. 25 : Jesus said unto her, I am (not I have been, nor I 
will be), I am the resurrection and the life (now). He that be- 
lieveth in me, though he were (spiritually) dead, yet shall he live. 
26 : And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. 
All blood life bodies do die, therefore they are not what Jesus 
spoke of as immortal ; none can be immortal but those spirit be- 
gotten of God, who only hath immortality to impart to others, and 
dwells in life light eternal that no mortal can approach unto ; 
therefore it must come by way of Christ's good seed of his Father's, 
sown in the soul's spirit egg mind before blood life death, for Grod's 
book of animate nature life proves positively that no birth impreg- 
nation can occur after the blood life body death, nor after the 
fowl's eggs are laid ; if there is no male bird life quickening resur- 
recting milt impregnation on the egg inside of the shell, there is no 
life there ; the hen might set six months on it faithfully, but no 
life birth will come forth ; break the shell and a resurrection of 
rottenness alone comes forth. Thus it is with soul egg minds whose 
blood life bodies die before spirit life of Glod impregnation takes 
place. No resurrection can ever after possibly occur but un clean- 
ness (Isa. v. 24 ; Dan. xii. 2 ; Mai. iv. 1 ; Matt. iii. 12 ; Rev. xx. 
11, 14, 15 ; xxi. 8). Spirit resurrection, and in spirit bodies. 

54.] The Son of God.— Nature witnessed truthfully, that its 
Creator was assailed by the powers of darkness and death ; that as 
a deluge of evil pervaded the earth and still prevails over the 
earth, all earth life dies, none are immortal of earth life. 

55.] Which followed. — As well to hear the doctrine of the gos- 
pel from his mouth, as to to give him drink. 

56.] And Mary. — Many have believed that it was the blessed 
virgin (John xix. 25 ; Mark xv. 40). 

57.] A rich man. — And was therefore in great danger to declare 
himself to be Christ's disciple, against whom the Jews had exer- 



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cised such extreme cruelty. Of Arimathea. — This is old Rama, or 
Ramathaim in the tribe of Benjamin. 

60.] Own new tomb. — Clearly showing it is no harm to erect 
vaults, or like this excavate the rock, or as Abraham who was rich 
and gave four hundred shekels of silver for the cave and lands 
for a burial place of his wife Sarah, called Maehpelah, in Hebron 
in Canaan. It is a proper treatment of the blood life remains of 
our friends, and elevates humanity above the brute creation. But 
to mock God, as a God of the dead rotten bodies our own, or our 
friends, and that he would awake rottenness vile bodies, begotten 
in sin, and composed of milk, green grass and colorless water, 
whitened by animal distillation, and flesh formed of the same : 
dead carcases of swine, rabbits, cats, rats, oxen, cows, sheep, deer, 
bear, fish, muscles, clams, oysters, etc. Various other dead bodies, 
and wheat, rye, corn, oats, buckwheat, rice, etc. Grass seeds, 
which led God's great prophet Isaiah to exclaim, xl. 6, All flesh 
is grass. 7 : Surely the people is grass. No farmer would con- 
sider a man or woman rational, that would say that he would even 
draw into his barn rotted grass ; much less the vile mockery that 
he doctored as a D.D. grass after it was dead and rotten, and cured 
it even to immortal life. 15 : Behold, the nations are as the drop 
of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance. 17 : 
All nations before God are as nothing ; and they are counted to 
him less than nothing and vanity, considering the cost of the 
sacrifice made by Christ of the body blood life sacrifice of Jesus' 
body, laid in the tomb of Joseph of Arimathea. 22 : The in- 
habitants of the earth are as grasshoppers before him. 23 : He 
bringeth princes to nothing. He maketh the judges of earth as 
vanity. 24 : And the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble. 

62.] The preparation. — The day before the sabbath, or before 
any other solemn feast, was so called, and especially after the nine 
hours, which were three hours after midday, immediately after 
which the feast was ; so that this following day was the sabbath 
itself in which the Jews did likewise celebrate the passover. 

63.] That deceiver. — The devil's Babel priests and Pharisees 
were not yet certain of their triumph, though they had seemingly 
conquered and vanquished the only Saviour of mortals. They 
call him a deceiver, without whom no man can know God unto 
salvation. After three days. — That is, the third day, taking one 
part as being truthfully on the third day. 

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wrong-doers, they judge the innocent disciples full of sorrow, 
would, like their devil lawyers, play vile tricks upon their oppo- 
nents, and win a brief verdict against the innocent through lies 
and fraud. 

65.] A watch. — Of Roman soldiers, appointed to lie in garrison 
in a stronghold which was by the temple, for the security of it 
and for the public tranquillity, whom they most likely used. 

66.] Sepulchre sure. — The more they seek to hinder and ob- 
struct truth, the more it appears to their shame. Truth is eternal ; 
though slow, it moves with power. 



Chapter XXVIII. 



1.] The first day. — The next day after the Jewish sabbath. 
The other. — She that is called the mother of James and Joses 
(Matt, xxvii. 56, 61 ; Mark xvi. 1). 

2.] There was. — Whilst these women were upon the way, the 
Lord rising at that instant, and coming out of the sepulchre or 
vault ; for by the time they reached there Jesus had left. But 
the angel remained there ; at whose sight the watch of Roman sol- 
diers fled, and in the meantime the women came, who were told 
by the angel that Jesus was risen ; and they went and reported 
it to Peter and John : John xx. 2. And these two apostles 
running to the sepulchre, the women came back with them ; but, 
they returning to the city, Mary Magdalene stayed by the vault : 
John xx. 10, 11 : And it is likely that the other women were near 
her. But Mary had a new vision of two angels ; and the Saviour 
appeared first to her (Mark xvi. 9 ; John xx. 14), and then to 
the other women by the way as they returned to Jerusalem for to 
make the second report thereof to all the apostles. The angel. — 
The first time there appeared but one, the second time two (Luke 
xxiv. 4 ; John xx. 12). 

4.] Did shake. — Unbelievers of truth are terrified at the presence 
of Grod or his angels, whereas believers spirit born G-od's children 
are comforted by it. 

7.] Ihave told you. — Assure yourselves of it, do it and fail not ; 
as for my part I have discharged my commission. 

9.] Jesus. — Mark xvi. 9 ; John xx. 14 : It appears that he 



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appeared to Mary Magdalene in some special manner before any of 
the rest. 

11.] And shewed. — Unbelievers are forced to give their own 
testimony to the truth, without any thanks to them for it. 

15.] Did as they. — By the just judgment of God they were so 
infatuated, that in dispersing the report they gave out things con- 
tradictory ; how could they testify that the body of Jesus was 
stolen away when they confess they were asleep? commonly 
reported, slanders, and lies, against the righteous. 

16.] A mountain. — From whence he returned to Jerusalem, 
and from the Mount of Olives he ascended into heaven (Luke xxiv. 
49 ; Acts i. 12). 

18.] Is given unto me. — In quality of mediator. And in the 
spiritual union of the spirit love soul mind power of Jesus, with 
the spirit word Son of God Spirit. And as soon as mortal vision 
mediation closed soon after the bloodless body of Jesus would be 
used, and placed for use ; or given to the earth elements of which 
it was composed. That is wholly his to dispose of as infinite wis- 
dom sees best. I have received from my Father God supreme of 
the universe the kingdom of this world and the spiritual kingdom 
of my spiritual spirit born church. John iii. 5 : And now I 
enter into the glorious possession and administration of it. 

19.] Go ye. — Therefore, not settle down at your ease in one 
place, while you get earthly pay. Declare my judgments to the 
nations, which is done by the preaching of the gospel (Ps. ex. 2 ; 
Isa. ii. 3, 4). All nations, Jews or Gentiles. Baptizing them as 
did John unto repentance. In the name. — As commissioned spirit 
born holy children of God the Father and the Son, and of the 
Holy Ghost, whose union in love, goodness, mercy, and power, 
name, I am permitted to use. 

20.] / have commanded. — No power was given any man on 
earth to make any new commandments or Babel creeds of men 
traditions. / am with you. — All who are spirit born holy, full of 
love. 1 John iv. 16. God is love ; he that dwelleth in love 
dwelleth in God, and God in him. 



324 MARK I. 



im: .a. ir, iec. 
Chapter I. 

1.] The beginning. — St. Mark begins his gospel with the 
preaching of John the Baptist. 

2.] In the prophets. — Malachi and Isaiah. Messenger. — Angel 
or ambassador. 

3.] Prepare. — Clear yourselves of all false second nature teach- 
ing beliefs, counter to the gospel truths. 

4.] In the wilderness. — It was a barren and waste place among 
the mountains. Preach. — That every man should be converted, 
and amend his life with true repentance for his former sins, and 
seek remission of the same through Jesus Christ and spirit birth. 

7.] There cometh. — Jesus Christ, whose forerunner I am. 

8.] Have baptized. — He declares that he is but a minister of 
the outward sign, and that it is Christ Jesus himself that gives 
efficacy to it. Holy Ghost. — Infinite love and goodness, spirit 
mercy of God. 

9.] Was baptized. — Matt. iii. 14 : I have need to be baptized 
of thee, and comest thou to me? Jesus said, Suffer it to be so 
now : for thus it becometh us to fulfill all righteousness. Then 
John suffered him. 

10.] He saw. — John i. 32 : I saw the Spirit descending from 
heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him. He that sent me to 
baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt 
see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he 
that baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. And I saw and bare record 
that this is the Son of God. 

13.] Tempted. — He himself would be tempted that he might 
assist such as are tempted (Heb. ii. 18), and for an example to 
overcome the tempter. 

15.] The time. — Prefixed by God himself for the coming of 
the Messiah, which is therefore called the fullness of time, Gal. 
iv. 4; Eph. i. 10. 

16.] Fishers. — It required but little exertion of the intellectual 
thoughts to Catch fish ; and as mortals are naturally inclined to 
appropriate all glory to themselves, the Lord took for his disciples, 
as I feel he has called me to this work, not for our great wisdom, 



MARK I. 325 

nor for our exalted education, nor honorable dignity of official 
Station, but to show forth his own exalted official mission from the 
Sovereign of the universe in clemency, to raise from condemned 
rebels under the sentence of death, by way of soul spirit egg mind 
immortal life impregnation, to develop a new spirit species of 
creatures equal unto the angels ; thus all the salvation power and 
glory comes wholly from God. 

21.] Capernaum. — This was a city in Galilee situated upon the 
lake of Grennesaret. 

22.] As the scribes. — Who had only dead Babel men creed 
doctrines, without any quickening spirit life power or majesty 
glory. 

24.] Destroy us. — The unclean spirits. They were tare seed 
children of the devil, whose bodies were rotten or passed to the 
elements. Matt. xiii. 39, 40 : Destroy us before the appointed 
time, the end of this world, when as foul tares they are consumed. 

26.] Torn him. — Having shaken and stretched him severely, as 
if he would have torn him in pieces. 

27.] What new doctrine is this ? — It was spirit birth of the 
soul spirit egg mind doctrine, clearly taught by the Lord Jesus 
Christ. Matt. xiii. 38 : The tares are the children of the wicked 
one. 39 : The enemy that sowed them is the devil. The harvest 
is the end of the world, and the reapers are the angels. 40 : As 
therefore the tares (foul weeds that grew there in that region, at 
that time, among the wheat that they pulled up, and to destroy 
their seed burned up with fire). As therefore the tares are 
gathered and burned in the fire, so shall it be in the end of this 
world. Then all unclean spirits shall be consumed in a moment, 
Num. xvi. 21. 

29.] They were. — Christ and his disciples. House of Simon. 
— Wherever Jesus Christ is received, he shows some sign of his 
divine power; for he comes never empty unto us, but brings with 
him the spiritual goods which he hath received of his Father. 

33.] All the city. — All that were diseased and came to be 
cured. 

34.] To speak. — Spirits, even evil, have knowledge unknown 
to animal nature blood life ; and evil spirits, even the father of 
lies, does, and can if he wills, like his tare popes, tell some truths. 

35.] The morning. — Which is very seasonable for prayer. But 
how different from the creeds of men tradition practice, who make 
vocal prayers in the house ; but Christ Jesus, before day dawn, 

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326 MARK I. 

went out of the house into a solitary place to talk with his Father, 
the Sovereign of the universe, in sweet communion, secret prayer. 
Matt. vi. 6 : When thou pray est enter into thy closet, and, when 
thou hast shut the door, pray to thy Father which is in secret 
(not seen by mortal eyes), and thy Father which seeth in secret 
shall reward thee openly. for more secret prayer ! Lord help 
all thy spirit born children to obey thy teachings ; and then vain 
loud noises of men's Babel creed tower, eloquent polished worldly 
wise eulogistic vocal words, for mortal ears present to admire, would 
not be studied in vain. John iv. 24: God is a spirit: and they 
that worship him must worship him in spirit (not with lips and 
tongue, nature blood life worship) and in truth ; not by an out- 
ward false pretence, or to faithfully comply with men creed rules. 

38.] Came I forth. — Christ Jesus did not return to the house 
for a vocal family worship, nor for food, for he received, in answer 
to his secret prayer, spiritual food from his heavenly Father's table, 
his native Messiah spirit home, and he came forth from thence on 
his Father's spirit love birth, new spirit doctrine proclamation, 
message of Scripture truths of God : the spirit. Father of all im- 
mortal spirit life, — and no others can be immortal, and all creeds 
of men preached contrary thereto are spirit Babel false creeds of 
men. John xiv. 6 : Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the 
truth, and the life : no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. 
John x. 1 : Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that entereth not in 
by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, 
the same is a thief and a robber. 9 : I am the door : by me if 
any man enter in, he shall be saved. 10 : The thief cometh not, 
but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy : I am come that they 
might have life. 11 : I am the Good Shepherd : the Good Shep- 
herd giveth his (blood) life for the sheep. 12 : But he that is a 
hireling (archbishop with $20,000 a year salary, or church of the 
pope Henry VIII. of England, or Congregational salary of $20,000 
a year, over $384 J per sabbath, present salaries, pope of Borne 
hundreds of thousands of dollars a year salary, from their poor 
toiling votaries). 

41.] Moved. — The compassionate and affectionate love of Christ 
appeared therein ; that he had, as it were, a fellow feeling of our 
infirmities and imperfections, whereby none need fear to go unto 
him. I will. — God's will and act is one, in a moment it is accom- 
plished, seeing he can do all things that he will. 

45.] To publish it. — Or to publish many things, and divulge 



MARK II. 327 

what was done. Could no more. — By reason of the great multi- 
tudes which thronged unto him. Mark iii. 9 : And hindered him 
from applying himself to the more important business of instruct- 
ing them in regard to spirit birth immortal life, which was his 
principal business. 



Chapter II. 



1.] In the house. — It is not stated what house, and it matters 
little where the truth gospel is preached. 

2.] Were gathered. — Amongst which, some were Pharisees and 
doctors of the law. They had not progressed to doctors of their 
myth divinity, which required a large amount of medicine, for 
they had tradition spirit Babel confused language creeds of men 
traditions. Matt. xv. 9 : But in vain do they worship me, teach- 
ing for doctrines the commandments of men. The word. — Of 
God, the gospel truths, not spirit Babel confused creeds of men 
tradition. 

4.] Uncovered the roof. — The houses in that country were built 
with flat roofs. 

5.] Thy sins. — He comes first to the cause of all our plagues, 
which being taken away, the effect ceaseth ; the fruit or effect of 
sin. What a different doctrine from that taught by eternal hell 
fire worshipers ! 

8.] In his spirit. — His spirit word spirit Son of God power. 
Why reason ye. — Clearly showing through the medium, his spirit 
word begotten body. Gen. iii. 15 : Of the woman's seed. 

13.] Sea-side. — The Lake of Gennesaret. 

14.] Levi. — Called also Matthew. 

17.] Sinners. — Those that are sensible they are such in their 
conscience, and unconscious dead sinners. 1 Tim. iv. 1 : Now the 
spirit speaketh expressly that in the latter times some shall depart 
from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of 
devils. Tradition Babel creeds of men contrary to gospel spirit 
truth. 2 : Speaking lies in hypocrisies (for salary), having their 
conscience seared with a hot iron, of endless hell fire torture of 
mortals of dust and earth elements. 

18.] And they. — John's disciples (Matt. ix. 4). 

22.] Old bottles.— Made then of leather. Old blood life bodies 



328 MARK III. 

would, like old leather bottles, be poor receptacles for spirit 
beings. 

26.] Abiathar. — Called also Abimelech (1 Sam. xxi. 1). Were 
with him. — In like necessity. 

27.] The sabbath. — The law of the sabbath was made for the 
good of man, as well his spiritual as his corporal good; to ease him 
of his labors, but not to prevent him from taking necessary 
nourishment sustenance. A day of rest ; devotion to righteous- 
ness. 

28.] Therefore. — Seeing that the intent of the law touching 
the sabbath is such, it belongeth to me, who am the sovereign 
lawgiver, to know what belongeth to the necessity of mine, and 
not to you false judges. And spiritually, self-assumed lordship 
over G-od's heritage by your tradition creeds of men. 



Chapter III. 



2.] And they. — Scribes and Pharisees which were present. 

3.] Stand forth. — To the end that the miracle should be mani- 
fest. 

4.] Is it lawful?— St. Mark and St. Luke say that Christ 
asked this question, but St. Matthew ascribes it to the Jews; and 
it is both ways true, for the Jews in their heart desired to know 
whether the work Christ did was lawful to be done on the sabbath 
day. Held their peace. — Out of policy; for they would neither 
confess it nor deny it. 

10.] Plagues. — Any corporal infirmity sent for a punishment 
or correction by the Lord. 

11.] Unclean spirits. — Which were in the possessed. To show 
that Satan's power is subverted by Christ. 

12.] Btraitly. — Christ will have none of the devil's testi- 
mony, who is the father of lies ; for if he do testify the truth, it 
is always in cunning, that he may afterwards falsify or overthrow 
it. 

17.] Boanerges. — To represent the power of the gospel spirit 
truth, not that they were to use loud voices like thunder, but a 
voice from heaven. 1 Kings xix. 12 : Still small voice. 

21.] His friends. — John vii. 3, 4, 5 : This is diversely under- 



MARK III. 329 

stood whether his friends tried to get him out of the pressure, or 
thought him deranged in mind, because he differed in belief and 
doctrine of spirit birth spirit life, from all preachers and men 
creeds on earth, or whether they were deluded, plainly appears 
when they are aided and abetted by the devil's tare seed unclean 
spirit nicknamers. 

22.] Beelzebub. — A nickname given the Lord Jesus Christ by 
devil nicknamers in human form ; one of the meanest develop- 
ments of evil nature. 

23.] Satan. — Christ readily explains that the devil will not 
war upon himself. 

26.] Against himself. — If the devil or the devil man commits 
suicide he is dead. 

29.] Against the Holy Ghost. — To impugn the power that 
wrought Christ miracles to the devil, when God, they well knew, 
wrought them. Nicknaming the Creator of all times, creation, 
things animate with life, and inanimate things Beelzebub, was a sin 
against the Holy Ghost never to be forgiven. Thank God there 
is no nicknamer in heaven ! 

30.] They said. — Contrary to the internal feeling of their con- 
science which was enlightened and convinced by the Holy Ghost, 
which they out of mere malice opposed, and said that Christ Jesus 
like themselves had an unclean spirit. Their evil nature nick- 
named God's spirit word son power in Jesus Beelzebub. There 
is no forgiveness for the spirit egg mind of a nicknamer of person 
or place : is as a spoiled egg. 

31.] His brethren. — Woman's seed developments from man lust 
milt, because they could not comprehend spirit born holy power 
of God, and because it did not agree with their Jewish men tra- 
dition church spirit Babel creed ; then the truth proclaimer of 
God must be flighty in mind, having no love for his spirit life 
immortal teachings, and being influenced by Christ's maligners. 

34.] Behold my mother. — Christ is not to be understood that 
he despised his Jesus body blood life nature mother ; but that he 
preferred spiritual before carnal parentage. God his spirit creation 
word power Father of Christ, without woman's seed or any other 
known to mortals, was the Father of the Jesus body. Gen. iii. 
15 : It shall bruise thy head ; woman's seed (Heb. ii. 14). 

35.] Shall do the will. — To do the will of God is to love him 
supremely, and their neighbor as themselves ; by first seeking the 
kingdom (Matt. vi. 33) of God and his righteousness, and all 

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330 MARK IV. 



these things shall be added unto you. John iii. 3 : Except a man 
be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. 5 : Except a 
man be born of water and of the spirit he cannot enter into the 



kingdom of God. 



Chapter IV. 



2.] Many things. — The apprehensions of his hearers were dif- 
ferent, therefore Christ accommodated himself to each one's 
capacity ; dispensed the riches of God's spiritual kingdom by 
parable illustrations to their finite dark understandings. 

4.] By the way. — When God's word is preached it finds not 
always such hearers as profit by it, for some lose it again by their 
own carelessness, as is showed in this similitudes. 

9.] That hath ears. — Christ speaks thus because the under- 
standing of these things is not given to all men. 

10.] They that were. — These were some that followed Christ 
besides his disciples. 

11.] But unto them. — To those who are strangers to my church 
(1 Cor. v. 12 ; Col. iv. 5 ; 1 Thess. iv. 12 ; 1 Tim. iii. 7). 

12.] They may see. — For a punishment of their wilful blind- 
ness and hardness. 

13.] How then will ye. — If you understand not that which 
is plain and easy, how will you understand those things which are 
difficult and mysterious, and fully revealed comprehensively only 
to those spirit born of Christ's spirit love seed holy ? 

14. j The sower. — Soweth the gospel word of Christ (John vi. 
63) ; not with Babel creeds. 

21.] Is a candle. — He exhorts them, by the example of a good 
life, to enlighten all men ; being set as an example of all the 
world. 

22.] For there. — He gives a reason for what he meant by the 
preceding similitude. 

24.] Shall be measured. — In Matthew vii. 2 this is spoken in 
the sense that one should abstain from offending another for fear 
of receiving an equal punishment. But here and in Luke vi. 
38 the end appears to be to warn his disciples, that according as 
they shall dispense and distribute the gifts and grace of God, they 
shall receive the same reward they mete out to their neighbors, if 



MARK IV. 331 

they fail of heaven in degrees possible with the gospel law truth 
in the case. 

25.] That which he hath. — That which he seems to have, as 
St Luke expounds it, viii. 18. 

26.] The kingdom. — The preaching of the gospel (not of tra- 
dition Babel creeds of men), by which the spirit born church is 
gathered together and governed in spirit under God's blessing, 
doth produce its effects by a secret power of God in the hearts of 
believers, not yet spirit born, by way of the little spirit seed of 
immortality, love quickening milt on their soul spirit egg minds 
the instant they make a full surrender of blood life to the Lord, 
Prov. xxiii. 26 : My son, give me thy heart, and let thine eyes 
observe my ways (not vain, frail man's ways, or creeds of men). 
Ps. cxix. 2 : Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that 
seek him with the whole heart (1 Cor. iii. 6, 7). 

27.] Should sleep. — Should follow his daily avocations, if not 
sinful, and take nature's accustomed rest. 

28.] Br ingeth forth. — Nothing is brought forth until the seed 
is put in, the use of the means requisite : first, the ground is 
plowed, to free it from foul weeds. Thus repentant tears plow 
the blood life heart ; and then the seed, if sown on good ground, 
receives the aid of the ground : thus spirit love seed requires the 
aid of the heart ; then the rains, which the spirit food from 
prayers of faith, descend ; then the sunlight : thus the light of 
the spirit life Son illumines his gospel truth, and opens the soul's 
spirit egg mind new creature spirit life immortal product of 
Christ's good spirit life eternal seed, though small in its belief 
mind reception of gospel truth love of Christ in God, yet it 
quickly expands into an overflowing well of love that reflects 
Christ within. 

30.] Whereunto. — There is nothing on earth that mortal eyes 
can see, ears hear, or blood life of nature soul spirit egg mind in- 
tellectual faculties comprehend, previous to spirit birth from God 
in Christ ; whereunto it is possible to intelligently compare and 
illustrate spirit birth spirit life immortal. No nature blood life 
being can comprehend what spirit is. The soul spirit egg mind, 
in its unquickened into spirit life dormant state, its spirit ways 
are wholly beyond the blood life or animal nature, senses compre- 
hensive to blood life tests. No mortal can taste, smell, hear, see, 
or feel a thought, that bursts forth from the soul spirit egg mind, 
nor the memory that retains that thought ; yet the blood life body 



332 MARK V. 

knows and obeys those thoughts, in locomotion of the body, which, 
like an abject slave, the mind wills to go. If body life is in 
health vigor, away go the feet one after the other, and bear the 
body on through space until the desired place is reached; once 
started, like the heart blood pulsations and lung inflations, that 
require no aid from the mind will power thoughts. 

33.] As they were. — Accommodating his illustrations to the 
small capacity of the hearers, he used these familiar similitudes to 
infuse the truth the more easily into humble and weak men, and 
the proud, self-esteemed earth educated, wise in their own eyes, 
he left to themselves, for all such reject spirit life wisdom, because 
they are Babel blood life wisdom popes, and reject, as freethinkers, 
what they cannot comprehend : and as they cannot comprehend 
any of the ways of Grod, nor even themselves, they believe in 
myth. 

36.] As he ivas. — At that time having taken neither food nor 
rest. 

38.] Asleep. — To try his disciples' faith in him, and to show 
them a sample of his power. 

41.] Feared. — Which fear was soon turned to wonder and ad- 
miration of their master. 



Chapter V. 



2.] A man. — Matthew refers to two ; it might have been 
another occurrence, or one of the men was the most afflicted and 
publicly noted as a wonderful bad case. 

5.] In the tomhs. — The devils, or unclean tare seed children 
of the devil, called unclean spirits, whose blood life bodies being 
dead, and rotted back to their native elements, they sought these 
mortals' minds ; finding the cells unoccupied with spirit life light 
love honey, they filled in their dark spirit tare hatred anger. 

7.] / adjure thee. — An impudent boldness of the devil, like 
his tare seed liars and swearers, in using the name of God. 

9.] What is. — A question grounded upon the custom of evil 
spirits, to take upon them proper names when they enter mortal 
soul spirit egg minds intellect cells, or when they become their 
masters or ministers by demon covenants. Now Christ asketh 



MARK V. 333 

his name to make the greatness of this man's misery apparent, 
and to show the wonder of his deliverance. Legion. — A Roman 
name for a great company of armed men, several thousand. 

10.] Oat of the country. — Not that the devil should have more 
solace and recreation, or be better handled in one country than 
another, but because they have a superlative wicked and unlimited 
appetite to damage and annoy mankind ; therefore they watch all 
opportunities to bring their malicious designs into effect, as a 
worm boring a tree until it is dead. 

12.] Send us. — For the devil had not power enough of his own 
to enter, not even into an unreasonable creature, without God's 
leave, clearly showing the mortal will door, if closed against evil 
spirits and evil thoughts atmosphere, they cannot enter. And in 
like manner, if closed against the holy good Spirit, it cannot enter. 
Therefore (Rev. xxii. 17) whosoever will, let him take the water 
of life freely. 

17.] To depart. — The inordinate love of worldly riches hinders 
us from receiving and obeying the spirit of Christ, which opposes 
the spirit of the world. 

19.] And tell them. — For those that receive good things at 
God's hands ought to declare and publish them. 

20.] Marvel. — Were astonished at the miracles which Christ 
Jesus did (Matt. iv. 25). Not only admiration, but also consider- 
ation of that power and virtue which was in him. 

23.] Point of death. — Matthew saith she was dead, she was 
dying, when the synagogue ruler told Jesus, and before their 
arrival at the ruler's house she was dead. Lay thy hands. — This 
Jairus, which was a principal man in the synagogue, had not such 
faith as the centurion, which desired only that Christ should 
speak the word and his servant should be healed. 

34.] Thy faith. — Such is his goodness that he credits our faith 
with part of the miracles, and to show us that faith is, as it were, 
the hand with which we received God's good gifts. 

40.] They laughed. — Because they had no hope ever to see her 
alive again, and thus ridiculed. 

43.] Charged them. — Because Christ would have mortals t > 
regard his doctrines of a spirit birth immortal life beyond bloo I 
life's brief existence, as of infinitely more importance to them than 
his restoration to blood life pulsations for a brief season. To eat. 
— To show that she was really alive again. 



334 MARK VI. 



Chapter VI. 

1.] Own country. — Nazareth, where Mary and Joseph lived. 

2.] To teach. — Showing that in- Grod's spirit life immortal 
church there is nothing that could possibly compare in honorable 
employment with preaching truth wholly in union with Grod's 
Scripture revelations of spirit life and his book of nature. 

3.] The carpenter. — From this we may plainly gather that 
Jesus' blood life body employment previous to his baptism in 
Jordan by John, his spiritual announcer, and witness of the union 
of the spirit baptism (Matt. xiii. 55). Offended. — They judged 
Jesus by his previous worldly employment, as like themselves but 
helpless, dependent mortal, and self-esteem in them rejected the 
spirit crowned Lamb of Glod, as their superior in intellectual de- 
velopment, as doth college-bred to-day. 

5.] He could. — Not for want of any power in him, but for 
want of due disposition in the people, who were faithless ; which 
disposition of faith, according to Grod's appointment, is requisite 
in him that draweth near unto Gk>d, to desire or receive any 
benefit at his hands : as the seed must be sown before any harvest 
can be gathered. 

9.] Sandals. — A Greek word ; and it was a kind of shoes, in 
fashion of soles laced, or with straps buckled over the foot (Acts 
xii. 8). Two coats. — Extra clothing. 

13.] Anointed. — This ceremony had received the sanction of 
Christ, for a token of his grace and supernatural virtue, to do 
these miraculous cures for the body only, without having therein 
any particular relation to the soul, nor the salvation of it, by way 
of spirit birth (John iii. 5), but as revealed (James v. 14). 

22.] Danced. — Clearly showing and teaching all Adam's sin 
lust begotten race that dancing is one of the devil's amusements 
of sin lust recreations of evil. Job xxi. 7 : Wherefore do the 
wicked live? 11: Their children dance. Exod. xxxii. 19 : He 
saw the calf and dancing. Isa. xiii. 21 : Satyrs shall dance 
there. Amos vi. 5 : Chant or dance to the sound of the viol 
music that the devil's children become intoxicated with and 
dance. 

26.] His oath's sake. — The murderer tyrant makes conscience 
where he need not. 



MARK VII. 335 

27.] An executioner. — A sergeant, or one of his soldiers, ac- 
cording to the custom of the Romans at that time, who commonly 
employed soldiers in capital executions. 

41.] Looked up. — Showing us by that gesture that all good 
which man receives comes from above, from the bounty and good 
ness of our heavenly Father. 

48.] And woidd. — He did as though he would have passed by 
them without stopping, to excite in them a greater wonder and 
desire for his help. 

51.] Beyond measure. — Extremely; more than they were when 
they saw him walk upon the water. 

52.] Considered not. — These miracles seemed new and strange 
unto them, because they had not well considered the former ones. 

56.] They might touch. — It was likely that this was because 
they had seen the miracle already done in this manner (Matt. ix. 
20 ; Acts xix. 12). 



Chapter VII. 



3.] Oft. — Go without eating often if there was no water for a 
thorough washing of their hands and fore-arms. Of the elders. — 
The governors of their men tradition church, or of the fore- 
fathers. 

6.] With their lips. — In outward appearance and vocal noise 
of the tongues, guidance by evil self pride, thoughts of hypocrisy. 

9.] Full well. — Their men tradition spiritual Babel creeds re- 
jected, as do most tradition creeds of men to-day, the Scripture 
commands of God. 

10.] Moses said. — Exod. xx. 12 : God's commandments on 
Mount Sinai. Honor thy father and thy mother. This passage 
of Scripture proveth that the law is not abrogated, and all truly 
spirit born of Christ's spirit life immortal new creature life that 
pulsates love feel drawn supremely in love to their heavenly 
Father, and their blood life evil selfish nature being consumed by 
Christ's fire baptism, they feel purely their nature affection kin- 
dred blood ties drawn to father and mother. 

11.] By whatsoever. — Pharisaical law, subverting, as do all 
mere men tradition Babel creed teachings, that all God's laws 



336 MARK VII. 

might be broken rather than become a heretic to Roman Catholic, 
Greek, English, or any other church Babel creeds of traditions of 
men they had ignorantly pledged themselves to. 

13.] Word of God. — All Babel confused spirit expounding 
tongues and creeds of men contrary to God's statute Scripture 
laws thereby make to their salvation the word of God of none 
effect through your traditions of men. 

14.] Hearken unto me. — Go not to any theology college or 
creeds of men. 

15.] Can defile. — The false creeds of men, that are handed 
down by creeds in various church sect organizations, that teach 
contrary to God's law. The words that come out of their mouths 
these are they that defile the man. 

19.] Purging. — Leaving by its separation the nourishment of 
the body void of the dregs and excrement. The heart is not 
the receptacle of food. 

20.] Which cornet h out. — Whilst a man walketh after the lusts 
and appetites of his carnal nature corruption, and Babel creeds of 
man traditions that mock God's holy Scripture truths, and contra- 
dicts them, there is nothing cometh out of him but such things 
as savor of uncleanness and unholiness. 

21.] From within. — The soul mind thoughts are evil continu- 
ally of all the incorrigible wicked, and political sectarian creeds of 
men who walk not after the spirit birth teachings of God's Scrip- 
tures (John iii. 5) cannot obtain heaven. 

22.] Evil eye. — Envy, slanderer, nicknamer of person or place. 
Blasphemy. — Profane swearers. Foolishness. — The folly of build- 
ing a creed tower to get to heaven in. 

23.] Come from within. — From the inward motion and inclina- 
tion of the blood life heart, mortals have within themselves the 
root from whence all wickedness springeth ; hereby we may see 
what natural depravity, corruption, and original sin is still in the 
nature descendant of Adam, who also reap his sentence, death. 

24.] Tyre and Sidon. — Cities in Phoenicia, not far from Galilee. 
Would have no man. — To avoid the vanity of mortals' applause ; 
which poor, vain mortals love. 

29.] For this. — Seeing thou hast that disposition which is 
appointed by God in constant and everlasting faith, thou shalt 
receive the benefit thou desirest. 

32.] To put his hand. — Which was an ordinary sign of the 
application of Christ's divine power. 



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3.] Put his finger*. — Gestures and actions which he used at 
his own pleasure, to show that he healed beyond all order of natu- 
ral means, by his power from his omnipotent Father. 

34.] He sighed. — In sign of his fervent charity and of his zeal 
in praying. 

37.] All things well. — As if they had said, besides the other 
works which he hath wrought, this also shows that he doth all 
things well. There was no possibility for him to do ill. 



Chapter VIII. 



2.] I have compassion. — Christ provides for his household of 
faith when in all appearance they seem to be quite neglected and 
forsaken. Nothing to eat. — In those climates men are not so 
subject to hunger as in cold climates, and may continue longer 
without food, and yet not prejudice their bodies. 

3.] Faint. — By reason of their too long fasting. 

4.] From whence. — It is not possible with human means so 
great a multitude should find sufficient to satisfy them withal in 
the wilderness. 

5.] How many. — These inquiries were to impress upon their 
recollection memory the number. 

6.] Gave thanks. — Teaching us to be thankful for the blessings 
we daily receive at God's hands. 

9.] Sent. — By the expanding power of God as in all life gener- 
ation, he fed them and then journeyed. 

10.] Dalmanutha. — A place near Bethsaida, between the Lake 
of Gennesaret and Mount Tabor. 

12.] Sighed. — Having compassion pity for their self-willed 
obstinacy in adhering to men creeds. 

21.] How is it. — He reproveth them for thinking he had spoken 
of material leaven, having seen with their eyes how easy it was 
for him to feed them sufficiently with corporal food. 

22.] Bethsaida. — A city situated upon the Lake of Gennesaret 
in Galilee. . 

23.] Had spit. — To show the power of simple faith means. 

25.] He put. — To show his disciples and all his spirit born holy 
children that he would bless the use of simple means to the healing 
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338 MARK IX. 

of body or soul, when the means were used in full faith belief that it 
would be done when it accorded with God's will glory : every word 
of God, by way of his spirit word Son, or prophets, or statute laws, 
are big with immortal expansion life, to the spirit born children 
of God especially. 

29.] Thou art the Christ. — That was the then belief of the 
disciples of our Lord, spoken by Peter. 

30.] Charged them. — Matt. xvi. 18 saith, And upon this 
rock (Christ) I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall 
not prevail against it. 

31.] Suffer. — He tells them plainly that his woman's seed spirit 
begotten blood life must suffer on the cross a sacrifice of blood life 
to open a spirit life door to soul minds spirit born. 

35.] Lose it. — Whoever neglected spirit birth of the soul mind 
would very soon lose their blood life by death that drew nearer 
each pulsation. Shall save it. — For the sacrifice of mortal blood 
life, he shall obtain, by way of spirit egg mind, spirit impregnation 
new creature in Christ Jesus (2 Cor. v. 17) life immortal being. 

36.] Gam the whole world. — By this is signified that the spirit 
birth salvation of our soul is to be placed infinitely above all earth 
blood life's transitory things. 

38.] Shall be ashamed. — Who by reason of having to renounce 
evil society and amusements, or natural hatred persecutions of the 
incorrigible wicked, whom they reprove for their vile, wicked 
works and ways, or their vile, wicked slanders, and nicknames and 
annoyances at the peril of blood life, if for God's glory, or make 
open profession of belief in a spirit birth experimental religion. 



Chapter IX. 



1.] With power. — To bear Christ's message to the churches on 
earth. Phil. iv. 13 : I can do all through Christ which strength- 
eneth me. 

2.] Transfigured. — Changed from nature body of Jesus' blood 
life development to the development of the fullness of his spirit 
word sonship divine spirit life. 

3.] Became shining. — He representeth his divine majesty unto 



MARK IX. 339 

them so far as they were capable to conceive of it ; poor blood life 
bodies could not endure it. 

4.] Talking. — Clearly showing that Moses and Elias were 
there. 

7.] This is my. — He alone is the truth, the life, the light, the 
way. 

9.] Of man. — Like all other miracles, the flesh body of Jesus 
was not to see corruption rottenness, like all lust- begotten bodies 
of Adam's race do. (Ps. xvi. 10.) 

10.] Should mean. — That same trouble that pervades all 
Adam's race in a state of nature unspirit born to understand a 
spiritual resurrection, not being able, nor are they now more than 
at the time spoken of to comprehend spirit life resurrection. 

12.] Be set at nought. — Dan. ix. 26: And after threescore and 
two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself (27 : 
He shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease) : signifieth 
the lowest degree of Christ's humiliation in his death of blood 
life. (Phil. ii. 7.) 

13.] As it is written. — Isa. xl. 3 : The voice of him (John the 
Baptist, called Elias) that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the 
way of the Lord. 

19.] Answereth him. — Faithless, the disciples lacked as all do at 
this day, faith to turn out the evil. 

23.] All things. — All things in accordance with God's glory 
and holy will ; no holy one asks more. 

24.] Unbelief. — Help, Lord. John xv. 5 : For without me ye 
can do nothing. 

25.] Charge thee. — As if he had said, Though thou hast not 
obeyed my disciples, yet my power thou canst not withstand. 

29.] This kind. — Teaching clearly that unclean spirits vary in 
power, as doth the devil's tare seed children. 

31.] For he taught. — It appears by this that Jesus did begin to 
withdraw himself from the frequent company of men, and from 
the other parts of his office and actions of his life, to prepare 
himself for the sacrifice of his woman's seed blood life holy, for 
the redemption from soul death of all who willed to become 
immortal, and to dispose his disciples to it. 

32.] Understood not. — Because they were still possessed with 
an opinion that Christ should temporarily reign. The very men- 
tion of his death was so strange to them that they could not com- 
prehend the meaning of it ; and much less if they had fully known 



340 MARK IX. 

his immortality, spirit life eternal connection with the eternal 
living Spirit God. 

33.] What teas it. — Christ would root the sin of earthly blood 
life's official station desires out of their hearts. 

35.] Shall be last. — Or let the man who aspires and labors to 
be made pope, if he could, remain in lay humility. No man is fit 
for any office until God, or his fellow mortals, call him. ' 

37.] Such children. — All spirit born holy are children of God; 
though a century of blood life age has passed over his body, 
he is but a helpless spirit child of God infant, in new creature 
spirit birth life from God in Christ. (Matt. xiii. 37, 38 ; John 
iii. 5.) Receiveth not. — Jesus speaketh thus, because that he was 
mediator. He referred all to his Father, and to his glory and 
service. 

38.] Saw one. — It was probably one who had believed the truths 
of Christ's doctrines and faith, and was moved by God's secret in- 
spiration to do miracles, though he did not follow with the disciples 
all the teachings daily with the Lord. The disciples, like the 
different sects of to-day, claim they alone were the church and the 
officials, exclusive of the Lord Jesus Christ, and their say alone 
must be the church creed. Christ plainly told them they were 
wrong, and should use no sectarian authority, as if they were the 
vicegerents alone of God, as if that power was exclusively theirs. 
In thy name. — Calling upon thee, and interposing thy authority. 

40.] 7s on our part. — May be a profitable instrument in God's 
work ; or, in this furious hatred which the world beareth me and 
my church, you ought to hold it as a favor and gain, if any one 
be not wholly against us. He that glorieth, let him glory in the 
Lord. Then let all churches on earth who believe in experimental 
religion, spirit birth, new creature life (2 Cor. v. 17) unite as one, 
and proclaim to the world one faith creed, the Scriptures : and 
one name, children of God. 

42.] Little ones. — Matt, xviii. 3 : Except ye be converted, and 
become as little children (John iii. 5, spirit birth ; 2 Cor. v. 17, 
new creature in Christ Jesus, Gal. vi. 15), ye shall not enter into 
the kingdom of heaven. Hanged. — Better be dead. 

43.] Thy hand offend thee. — Not God. This is a form of 
speech whereby he means that we should rather cut off all things 
that might hinder us from serving him, than employ them in any 
thing that is evil. Into hell. — Into Gehenna, death. 

44.] Worm dieth not. — A parabolic emblem to show that death 



MARK X. 341 

of the incorrigible wicked soul, or its tare seed unclean spirit pro- 
duct, would be eternal death. The death worm, or fire death 
punishment. 

49.] For every. — He gives a reason for cutting off all entice- 
ment to sin ; for as every offering under the law was to be salted 
(Lev. ii. 13), so every Christian, to present himself unto God in 
a living sacrifice, ought to be purged from all corruption by the 
Holy Ghost, who hath the virtue of fire (Matt. iii. 11). 1 Cor. 
iii. 13 : The fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. 
19 : For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. Then 
do not seek heaven's way at college. 

50.] Is good. — Spirit love is the only salt that can save souls 
from death. 



Chapter X. 



1.] Farther side. — When he had passed Galilee he came into 
that part of Judea which is beyond Jordan, where John the 
Baptist first preached truth unalloyed. 

3.] Moses. — Christ hath a relation to the seventh command- 
ment, of not committing adultery. 

6.] From the beginning. — For the rectifying of such an abuse, 
he remits them God's ordinance ; which ought to be always 
received for a law guide to truth. 

10.] In the house. — Christ's disciples, not well understanding 
his answer, desire to be further instructed in that same matter. 

11.] Put away. — That divorceth himself from her, unless it be 
for adultery (Matt. xix. 9). 

12.] If a woman. — The law of God makes no mention of 
divorces undertaken by women. A thing which was unheard of 
by the people of God, and contrary to all modesty and honesty. 

14.] Kingdom of God. — Seeing God denies them not salvation 
for their incapacities, men for the same reason should not deny 
them baptism, which is much less. 

15.] Shall not. — John iii. 3 : Jesus said, Except a man be 
born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. 

16.] And blessed them. — That is, commended them to his 
heavenly Father's protection. 

18.] Me good. — Christ would show them that his goodness was 
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342 MARK X. 

not like that which is ascribed to mortals, which is vain and false 
outside appearances. 

21.] Loved him. — He showed him some signs of favor, as con- 
gratulating him for this outward disciplinary acquirement; not 
in any way approving of his pride and hypocrisy, not being con- 
tented with his outward action. Neither that he dissembled 
against his thought, but in a kind of mild irony and graceful 
contempt of his vanity. 

24.] Trust in riches. — The spirit borri holy child of God trusts 
wholly in God, and clearly understands that they are helpless as 
a nature child, dependent upon their parents or grown providers 
of food and raiment. Thus the dear Redeemer clearly states the 
case. John xv. 5 : Without me ye can do nothing. 6 : If a man 
abide not in me he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered ; and 
men gather them and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. 

27.] Are possible. — God can give a man such grace that he 
may not place any affections on the wealth he possesses, but hold 
them as a servant of God, to whom all gold and silver belong. 

30.] Shall receive. — He intimates that those small possessions 
of earthly goods the spirit born children of God possess with 
peace of mind are better for them than a hundred-fold larger 
amount with unbelief of the Scripture truths of the gospel, in- 
finitely. 

32.] Amazed. — By reason of his frequent predictions, by which 
he foretold his approaching sufferings and death in Jerusalem, 
whither they saw him going. 

34.] Mock him. — Of the Gentiles, after the Jews shall deliver 
him over unto them. 

35.] We would that. — This example shows how ambitious the 
flesh is of earthly honors. 

40.] It is prepared. — The blood life body soul mind of Jesus, 
that was in unity of love infinite with the spirit word Son of God, 
disclaimed that it was his to give distinction in the spirit world. 
Blood life authority all ended on earth. 

42.] Which are accounted. — Who, though they ought to ac- 
knowledge themselves to be God's servants for the good and profit 
of the people, do attribute unto themselves, through immoderate 
presumption, an absolute power over them. 

43.] Shall be your. — Or, let him be your minister. 

44.] Servant. — The pope, instead of lording it with a triplicate 
crown, should be as a boot-blacker. 



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45.] Many. — Clearly stating the case for many, not for all 
Adam's rebel race, as madly taught by fanatics. 

46.] As he went out. — He went in and out of Jericho, and per- 
haps many times healed and restored to sight many, but the case 
here spoken of was a noted case, Bartimeus. 

52.] Thy faith. — All our blessings come from God, and are 
received by faith; sow and reap. 



Chapter XI. 



1.] Bethphage. — A village near the Mount of Olives, about a 
mile from Jerusalem. 

4.] The colt—See Matt. xxi. 5. 

6.] Let them go. — Wherein Christ's power was shown, to 
which these men were obedient. 

9.] Name of tlie Lord. — Many came in their own names, but 
Jesus came in the name of the Lord, which sent him for the sal- 
vation of mankind. 

12.] He was hungry. — Herein subjecting himself to man's in- 
firmities of nature blood life from the woman's seed. 

14.] No man eat. — Showing thereby his displeasure with those 
who make a great show of sanctity without any fruits of holiness 
or church increase (John xv. 5). Such preachers are self called, 
men commissioned, barren trees, with green leaves but no spirit 
fruit. 

15.] Began to cast out. — Christ showed his disapproval that the 
place where God had permitted his name to be used should be so 
polluted through the priests. 

16.] Any vessel. — That was not consecrated, nor for the service 
of the temple, but for these merchants and other men's uses, which 
was a profanation (Neh. xiii. 7, 8). 

17.] Of all nations. — Wherever a house is dedicated to God's 
service, prayers ascend to God therefrom, if there are any spirit 
born holy worshipers therein. 

18.] Destroy him. — Secretly, and by some ambush. 

22.] In God. — Such a faith as he every way requireth in all 
parts and qualities, and such a one as he engendereth in believers 
by his spirit birth life eternal. 



344 MARK XII 

24.] What things soever ye desire, when ye pray. — In love faith. 
By this he gives no toleration to ask whatsoever shall come in our 
fancy ; for prayer must be regulated by faith love, and faith must 
not wander out of the limits of the word of promise conditions. 
Satan, or one of his unclean spirits, may throw into the mind 
hopper all the surrounding affairs of political aspirants full of sin, 
to grind out voters among the hearers. Such petitions are to 
mortal ears, not to God. 

28.] What authority. — Christ's works testified by what au- 
thority he did those things ; but the eyes of their hearts' blood 
life were so blind with self creed traditions of men, malice, and 
envy, that they could not see the truth way of spirit birth holi- 
ness love. 



Chapter XII. 



2.] A servant. — Servants the prophets. The Lord sent to his 
people sometimes one prophet, sometimes many. We may there- 
fore by this account of one understand them all. 

5.] Many others. — The goodness of God strives against the 
wickedness of mortals' ingratitude. 

9.] Destroy. — These stiff-necked governors, who, through covet- 
ousness and ambition, had opposed themselves against him. 

10.] Not read. — Ps. cxviii. 22 : The stone which the builders 
(of God's spiritual temple) refused is become the headstone of 
the corner. 23 : This is the Lord's doing. The head. — The 
strength. 

11.] The Lord's doing. — It is the Lord's ordinance which is 
repugnant to all unspirit born, unholy. 

18.] Asked him. — Sadducees say there is no resurrection. The 
absurd Pharisee doctrine of the resurrection of rotten bodies they 
rejected as mockery of God. Matt. v. 20 : Except your righteous- 
ness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, 
ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven. 

19.] Moses. — Because his writings were held in great esteem 
among the Jewish people. 

24.] Therefore err. — Christ by his demand declareth that the 
original of error and false opinions proceeds from despising and 
being ignorant of the Scriptures, following traditions of men. 



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25.] But are.-— Gal. iii. 28 : There is neither male nor female ; 
for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. Clearly showing human bodies 
are not raised. Spirits, angels, and all immortal beings are spirit 
children of God, and without sexual distinctions. 

27.] He is not. — Clearly and fully denies the Pharisee doctrine 
of blood life corruption matter resurrection. He is not a God of 
the dead, but of the living, — spirit born of his spirit life immortal 
seed in Christ. Of the living. — Therefore those must live still 
that are spirit born immortal life beings. John xi. 25, 26 : Jesus 
said, I am the resurrection and the life. 

28.] Asked him. — Tempting him (Matt. xxii. 35). He speaks 
as if the gospel lessened Mosaic law of God. 

29.] The first. — The chief and most excellent, to which the 
rest are added. 

30.] Thou shalt love the Lord thy God. — Clearly teaching love 
to be the whole life pulsation of all spirit born holy beings in 
heaven ; no others can enter there. 

31.] Thou shalt. — Imperative statute command law of God on 
Mount Sinai. 

34.] Thou art. — The kingdom of grace was near him in the 
gospel love truths which he had uttered, by which he re-estab- 
lished his kingdom in salvation of all spirit born of love. 

38.] Long clothing. — He condemns their love of the long cloth- 
ing ; Episcopal and Catholic priests ; vainglory. 

41.] The treasury. — There were two kinds of offerings in the 
temples : the one of money for the repairing of the building, and 
to buy the ordinary offerings for sacrifices and other uses, 2 Kings 
xii. 9. But in the people's court was a chest where every one 
cast in what money they pleased. The people's court chest is all 
any church should have. 

43.] Cast more in. — The Lord esteems our gifts according to 
our affection in giving. 

44.] Of her want. — Of her exceeding small store. (2 Cor. 
viii. 2.) 



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Chapter XIII. 

2.] There shall not be left. — Christ had foretold his disciples of 
the destruction of the temple. 

5.] Take heed. — He forewarns them of that which was more 
needful for them than what they asked. 

6.] / am Christ. — The Messias, the king of the church, which 
popes mock ; they are antichrist. 

8.] Kingdom against kingdom. — Because that men would not 
willingly yield themselves obedient to the gospel ; therefore with- 
out spirit birth love hatred wars would continue. 

11.] Take no thought. — He speaks this that they should be 
assured of his assistance, and that he would prompt them what 
to answer, lest they rely upon their own strength and fall. 

25.] Stars of heaven. — This shows that there shall be a perfect 
change of the whole course of nature. Heb. i. 10 : Thou Lord 
in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth ; and the 
heavens are the work of thy hands. 11 : They shall perish, but 
thou remainest ; and they shall wax old as doth a garment. 

27.] Of heaven. — A popular term. For to the eye the heavens 
seem to terminate the earth round about (Matt. xxiv. 30). 

30.] This generation. — The generation living when the great 
changes of the heavens occur. 

31.] Pass away. — Rev. xx. 11 : And I saw a great white 
throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the 
heaven fled away ; and there was no place found for them. 2 Pet. 
iii. 10 : The earth also, and the works that are therein, shall be 
burnt up. 

32.] Neither the Son. — The Son of man, the woman's seed blood 
life as man. 

33.] Watch. — Do not grow weary of your brief earth life 
watching and prayers of faith. 

34.] Far journey. — The heaven of heaven's throne of God is 
millions of miles to us unknown. 

35.] At even. — He uttereth a variety of parables, to impress on 
the mind the responsible truths. 

37.] Watch. — Because our whole life is a continual warfare ; 
therefore it stands us in hand to watch. 



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Chapter XIV. 

1.] Passover. — According to the law, the fourteenth day of the 
first month, March, at evening ; but this year of Christ's suffering 
it was put off until the sabbath day, which was the following day. 

4.] Indignation. — Judas was a lover of silver, and never satis- 
fied, and a saving miser. 

8.] Come a forehand. — But now Christ Jesus hath no more 
need of such anointing, or the like office. 

12.] When they. — The same day as, according to law, they 
were to kill the lamb, though the Jews by tradition did transfer 
the passover to the day following. 

22.] Is my body. — That is, even as bread and wine are or- 
dained for the nourishment of the body, and preservation of blood 
life ; so my body that shall be broken, to shed out the blood life 
for you, is the purchaser of immortal spirit life pardon, and spirit 
life immortal food, for your spirit born new creature life (Rom. 
viii. 9). It cannot be nourished without spiritual food. 

23.] All drank of it. — His church must all partake of it. But 
pagan popery priests say drink ye all of it, and then drink me all 
of it, refusing it to the laity. 

36.] Abba. — It was a Syriac word used in affectionate tender 
prayers to God (Rom. viii. 15 ; Gal. iv. 6). 

38.] Is ready. — Though you be willing spiritually, yet the 
weakness of your flesh will not suffer you to do it. 

41.] It is enough. — Showing them what John, xv. 5, con- 
firms : Without me ye can do nothing. 

43.] One of the twelve. — This added to the horrid treachery 
murder sin of Judas. 

45.] Master. — Some original copies have it, Master, well be it 
unto thee. 

50.] They all. — All his disciples. 

54.] Afar off. — Peter begins to abate much of what he had 
formerly boasted. 

61.] Blessed. — Of God, to whom all glory and praise is due. 
A name used by the Jews. 

62.] Of power. — Of the glorious God, according to the custom 
of the Jews common then. 

68.] He denied. — Peter had quickly forgotten those gallant 
promises he had made unto Christ. Let us then take notice of 



348 MARK XV, XVI. 

our weakness, that we may learn not to depend on our own 
strength. 

72.] He wept. — Or, he went out and wept. The Pope of 
Rome should do likewise. 



Chapter XV. 



7.] In the insurrection. — He seems here to intimate some late 
and notable insurrection. 

21.] Of Alexander. — They were known and famous persons in 
the church at that time. 

23.] Wine. — This wine was given to condemned men by a cer- 
tain act of mercy, to dull and stupefy their senses. 

24.] Casting lots. — The soldiers fulfilled ignorantly what was 
foretold, Ps. xxii. 18. 

25.] The third hour. — Nine o'clock in the morning. 

39.] Centurion. — Spake in spirit truth language, this man was 
the Son of God ; only begotten sacrificial lamb of God to close all 
types sacrificed from Abel to that day. 

42.] Because it was. — It would seem that this was the occa- 
sion which moved Joseph to make such haste, by reason of night 
drawing on, because at that time began the preparation of the 
feast. 

43.] Counsellor. — Senator, or member of the great council of 
seventy-two. The kingdom spirit life immortal kingdom, after 
blood life probation's close on earth. 



Chapter XVI. 



1.] Had bought. — In the three last hours of the day in which 
our Lord was crucified (Luke xxiii. 56). Anoint. — Embalm like 
the Egyptians, where they by tradition received such false ideas 
from in regard to the dead corruption body resurrection to life, 
which God's providence would not suifer the mockery to be per- 
petrated on Jesus' body. 



MARK XVI. 349 

• 5.] Into the sepulchre. — Cut out in the rock in the manner of a 
vault. A young man. — An angel, thus clothed in human form 
for the occasion, for angels have a spirit body that passes through 
the air with the fleetness of light ; flesh bodies would be in atoms, 
as if shot from a cannon, with any such flight as angels take 
(Dan. ix. 21). 

7.] And Peter. — He makes a special mention of Peter, who 
was in deep repentance trouble, for he most grossly sinned, and 
therefore needed the greater comfort. 

8.] Neither said tfiey. — They stayed not to talk with any one, 
but ran in haste to tell the disciples. 

11.] Believed not. — The disciples had quickly forgotten what 
Christ had told them of his resurrection. 

12.] In another form. — Christ could change the body form in 
a moment at will. 

14.] Appeared. — This was upon the eleventh day after his 
resurrection. At meat. — After the meal, continuing their talk 
and holy conversation (John xx. 19). 

16.] Believeth. — John v. 44 : How can ye believe, which re- 
ceive honor one of another, and seek not the honor that cometh 
from God only ? 

17.] These signs. — Showing clearly the weakness of all faith 
on earth (Matt. vi. 30). 

19.] Had spoken. — To many, and on numerous occasions (Acts 
i. 2, 3). Received up. — St. Mark mentions in short that which 
St. Luke gives a full description of as it appeared to him (xxiv. 
50). Sat. — At the right hand of honor in heaven's spirit 
glory. 

20.] The Lord working. — He means that these works were 
the true and proper works of God. 



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ULTTIEC IE- 
Chapter I. 

15.] In the sight. — In God's service and esteem. Neither wine. 
— Being consecrated to God as a Nazarene (Num. vi. 3). Shall 
be filled. — He shall be abundantly endowed with the gifts of the 
Holy Ghost. 

16.] Shall he turn. — He shall be an instrument of their con- 
version by his preaching (Acts xxvi. 18). 

17.] Before him. — The Messias, who is the Lord God of Is- 
rael, clearly stated in this verse. 

19.] That stand. — As God's minister and messenger. Am 
sent. — I came not of my own volition ; I, came in obedience to 
the command of the supreme Sovereign of the universe. 

20.] Thou shalt be dumb. — A miraculous sign to confirm what 
he had said. 

24.] Hid herself. — Until the miracle became certain, lest the 
scorn of mortals should make her doubt. 

25.] Thus hath. — Words of admiration and joy after she was 
certain of her conception. My reproach. — Because barrenness 
was accounted a dishonorable thing among the Jews. 

28.] Favored. — Thou, of all Adam's race, art exalted and blest 
to thy race, who should call thee blessed in honor. Thy seed 
shall triumph over the devil that hath the power of death.- Heb. 
ii. 14 : And through his sacrificial blood all spirit born holy be- 
come immortal. Blessed art thou. — One which hath received an 
undeserved favor from God. 

32.] Shall be called. — The only begotten Son of God. John 
i. 14 : The word. Gen. iii. 15 : The seed of the woman should 
bruise the serpent's head. 

34.] How shall. — A question out of pure admiration, and a desire 
to be instructed in a necessary truth to be known, and not to be 
apprehended by mortal understanding from nature. Gen. iii. 15 
gives the key to the mystery. Seeing. — The holy Virgin thus 
speaks because the angel had spoken to her of Jesus' conception 
as of a thing which should soon come to pass, and her marriage 
with Joseph might be deferred (Matt. i. 18). 

35.] Overshadow thee. — A figurative kind of speech to signify 



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the secret power of the Holy Ghost in this work. As the eggs 
laid by the female fish in the still water are passed over by the 
male with milt quickening resurrection life, thus the word of God 
in Eden (Gen. iii. 15) passed upon the woman's seed egg of the 
virgin, called overshadowing spirit void of nature elements. The 
infidel fool that says in his heart there is no God limits also the 
power of God to what he has created. 

37.] Nothing. — All things consistent with God's attributes, 
holy and infinite ; he cannot lie. 

38.] Behold the. — She consented to God's will, and subjected 
herself unto it obediently. 

39.] The hill country. — It was part of the land belonging to 
the tribe of Judah (Josh. xv. 48). Into a city. — Hebron, a city 
appointed for the priests, such as Zacharias was (Josh. xxi. 11). 

48.] He hath regarded. — That is, hath taken pity upon the 
wretched condition and estate that I, a descendant of King David, 
was brought into ; and hath not disdained my poverty, but hath 
been pleased to choose me for a vessel of grace in this great work 
of salvation of souls. Ps. xxxiv. 2 : My soul shall make her 
boast in the Lord : the humble shall hear thereof and be glad. 

50.] His mercy. — After sentence of death had been pronounced 
upon all Adam and Eve's race. 

52.] The mighty. — Which are raised high in earthly might and 
power. 

53.] The hungry. — Matt. v. 6 : Blessed are they that hunger 
after righteousness (John vi. 35). 

54.] Hath holpen. — Or, hath taken into his protection ; or, 
hath raised up from utter helplessness. 

55.] As he spake. — As he promised to all nations of the earth 
who complied with faith's conditions. 

58.] Her neighbors. — All who had read the Scripture prophe- 
cies of the prophet Isaiah, vii. 14 : A virgin shall conceive and 
bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. 

60.] Not so. — It is likely that Zacharias had toM Elizabeth in 
writing of the name John, given by the angel. 

64.] His tongue loosed. — And he praised God. not only con- 
fessing the goodness of God towards him, but also to show that he 
had been justly punished for his unbelief. 

QQ.^\ The hand. — God's apparent favor and protection were with 
him, and there appeared in him an extraordinary divine virtue 
actuating all his surroundings. 



352 LUKE II. 

67.] Prophesied. — He spake by divine inspiration of the mys- 
teries of the church's salvation, which as yet were not fully re- 
vealed. 

68.] Blessed be. — He begins with thanksgiving. Visited. — 
He hath in effect shown the care he hath taken of them by a new 
and singular effect of his grace. 

69.] Raised up. — 1 Sam. ii. 1 ; Ps. lxxxix. 5, 18 : He hath 
given his spirit born children cause to triumph by reason of the 
spiritual victory which the Messias hath had over his enemies. 

71.] That we. — Spirit born holy should be saved from our 
enemies, through the power of Christ. 

72.] The mercy. — He refers back to the promises of Glod as 
recorded in the Scriptures being fulfilled. 

73.] The oath. — The promise which he made to Abraham 
(Gren. xxii. 16). 

76.] Shalt be-called. — Thou shalt not only be so indeed, but 
shalt be acknowledged to be such by public testimony and acknowl- 
edgment. 

77.] By the remission. — He shows that salvation is preceded by 
the forgiveness of sins of all spirit born of God in Christ. 

78.] Dayspring. — Jesus Christ, the true Sun of righteousness 
(Mai. iv. 2). 

79.] In darkness. — He sets here before our eyes the state of 
human generations. 



Chapter II. 



1.] Csesar Augustus. — This was the second Roman emperor 
who had brought the land of Judea under obedience to Rome. 
All the world. — A popular kind of speech, the whole Roman em- 
pire. 

3.] Into his own, — This ought to be especially understood of 
the Jews, who, by their ancient divisions, had their tribes, nations 
and families, with their inheritances, in certain designated cities, 
in which they held their freedom of being citizens thereof, and of 
community there, though they dwelt elsewhere. 

4.] Nazareth. — Where Joseph and Mary's habitation was; 
though their ancestors came from Bethlehem, where they were 



LUKE II. 353 

citizens. Of David. — The city where he was born, and where 
the ancient seat of the family was (1 Sam. xvi. 1 ; John vii. 42). 
Bethlehem. — A house of bread. 

7.] In a manger. — Of the stable of that inn where they were 
lodged. In which inn all other places were taken up, by reason 
of the great concourse of people, either by such as first came, or 
were by the hotel-keeper more esteemed than those pious Naza- 
renes. 

9.] The glory. — Divine and heavenly light which God's angel 
messenger spirits are clothed with, showing that they belong to 
heaven's angelic children of God and light. 

13.] Heavenly host. — An ordinary name of the holy angels. 

14.] Peace. — Reconciliation with God, followed with his love 
and with a sweet harmonious concord amongst them. Towards. — 
Or, amongst men. 

15.] Which is come to pass. — The faith of the shepherds is here 
commended. 

19.] Pondered them. — Examining, gathering together and com- 
paring them one with the other, to ground herself more and more 
in knowledge and faith (Acts xvii. 11). 

21.] For the circumcising. — Jesus should be circumcised for 
the same reasons for which he also would be baptized, to fulfill the 
ceremonial emblem law of spiritual heart blood life circumcision 
in spirit birth children of God. Of the angel. — They do not do 
it unwittingly or by chance, but by the Lord's command. 

24.] A pair. — Which was the offering of the poorest sort of 
people (Lev. xii. 8). 

25.] Devout. — Or, religious and fearing God. Waiting. — For, 
at that time, the minds of believers were raised up, and attentively 
looking for the approaching coming of the promised Messias. 

26.] Christ. — The Greek name answerable to the Hebrew 
name Messiah, that is, anointed and consecrated, namely, for the 
eternal King and High Priest (Ps. ii. 6 ; Isa. lxi. 1 ; Dan. ix. 
24). 

27.] The parents. — Reputed by the world or unspirit born 
unenlightened by spirit birth wisdom from heaven's spirit clime. 

28.] Blessed God. — For the benefits he received from him, by 
the presence of the promised Messiah (Heb. vii. 3). 

29.] Lord, now. — Even at this time that thou hast accom- 
plished thy promise unto me, and that I have with mine eyes 
keen the Saviour of the world, I die happy and contented to leave 

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354 LUKE II. 

blood life, and in spirit body life desire to be forever with the 
Lord (Gen. xlvi. 30). 

32.] To lighten. — Or, which must be revealed to all nations. 

33.] Marveled. — Not but that they perfectly knew it by the 
angel's revelation ; but because they saw his light was also com- 
municated to others, and was spread abroad. 

34.] This child is set. — Or sent ; that is to say, God hath 
established him to be the fundamental rock of salvation to all 
those that shall receive him by a lively faith, and spirit birth of 
his good seed. 

35.] A sword. — Such shall the opposition be that thou who art 
the nature seed mother must prepare thyself to be pierced with 
extreme grief and anguish. That the thoughts. — That is, God 
shall suffer all this to pass to the end that by the preaching of the 
gospel may be discovered the impiety of the rebellion of God's 
open enemies, that they may be utterly annihilated. 

38.] In that instant. — By the providence of God, and being 
moved by the Holy Ghost. 

39.] They had. — Viz., Joseph and Mary. Returned to Naza- 
reth. — After they had first fled with the child into Egypt (Matt. 
ii. 13), or soon after reaching Nazareth they fled. 

40.] Waxed strong. — Whereby the spirit word of God creation 
son spirit power was manifest in unison with the child Jesus, 
whose woman's seed blood life body grew strong and beautiful as 
the sacrificial lamb of God. 

44.] In the company. — This shows that a great multitude went 
together. 

47.] Answers. — Truthful reasons that he gave. 

49.] Wist ye not. — Having heard so many witnesses of me, — the 
angel, Simeon, Anna the prophetess. My Father s business. — 
Spiritual life immortal business of the greatest possible momentous- 
ness to you, as well as all Adam's race now under the irrevocable 
sentence curse of death of blood life ; and I am the soul spirit 
egg mind intellectual spirit life immortal mediator between my 
spirit Father and poor doomed mortals, to whom by way of the 
a liance of my spirit birth spirit life immortal love pulsating seed, 
with Adamic nature woman's seed, a narrow way through my 
blood life sacrifice to God's infinite holy justice flame that consumes 
the life of all unspirit born unholy beings : I haste, even before 
the maturity of nature blood life, to the appointed years of my 
ministerial priesthood, to arouse the men tradition preachers to a 



LUKE III., IV. 355 

sense of their duties, being impelled forward by my love infinite 
soul pulsations of mind and the magnitude of my office of media- 
torial sacrifice. 

52.] In favor. — God's gifts and graces, and his loving favor to 
Christ over all mortals on earth were daily apparent, and mortals 
were pleased with his wisdom. 



Chapter III. 



6.] The salvation. — Jesus Christ, in whom alone is spirit birth 
life immortal seed salvation of the world. 

11.] Let him impart. — Showing his piety by acts of pure charity 
towards his neighbors. 

14.] Falsely. — Vexing him by cunning or malice, as nicknam- 
ing persons or places, and falsely slandering for crimes or acts 
never done by him : do no wrong to any. 

15. J Were in expectation. — Concerning the coming and mani- 
festation of the Messiah, that firm belief being rooted in the 
minds of the people that the time was come : as well in regard to 
the prophecies, and the fullness of time, as by reason of some 
secret inspiration of Grod. 

23.] About thirty. — At which age the priests began to enter 
into service (Num. iv. 3, 35-47), which our Lord did imitate, who 
was the great and spiritual life immortal priest of truth and 
verity. 



Chapter TV. 



1.] By the Spirit. — By the spirit word creation power son of 
Jehovah Grod, or by the Holy Grhost, by which he was always 
accompanied, and he was the Holy Grhost. 

4.] Every word. — The decrees and wisdom of Grod, who by his 
power doth preserve and govern all things. Deut. viii. 3 : Man 
doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth 
out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live. 

6.] Delivered. — So the devil is constrained to confess that he 



356 LUKE IV. 

hath no power over the world, only as God permits him to be the 
prince of his worshipers. 

13.] For a season. — Until he openly set upon him, and assaulted 
him at the time of his passion (Luke xxii. 53 ; John xiv. 30). 
For the devil never wholly desists, and the respite he gives is but 
to return with greater force. 

14.] In the power. — Carried in his voyage by the spirit word 
son power, his Father, as by the same creation spirit word son of 
God power he was sustained in the desert. 

16.] And stood up. — It was the fashion among the Jews that 
if any one did come to their ecclesiastical meetings, who was 
known to have some gift of understanding the holy Scripture, 
which was read every sabbath day (Acts xiii. 27 ; xv. 21), they 
would entreat him to make them partake of it, for their common 
edification. (Acts xiii. 15.) 

17.] He had opened. — Unfolded ; for books in those days were 
made of rolls of parchment, or some like material, rolled up about 
a stick. 

18.] The Spirit. — The Spirit of the Lord is upon me. The 
spirit word creation power spirit Son of Jehovah almighty eternal 
sovereign supreme God of the universe, called the Lord God of 
Israel. 

21.] This day. — This is a summary of the Lord's sermon, 
showing that those things which had been spoken by the prophet, 
were now accomplished by the gospel which he had begun to 
preach unto them. 

22.] The gracious. — Divinely pleasing love words attracted 
their soul minds, by a secret drawing of love's attraction persua- 
sions as proceeding from God, by the Holy Ghost in him. 

23.] Physician. — An ordinary proverb, meaning respect those 
that are nearest thee, more than strangers, for thou hast wrought 
many miracles in other places, and here thou workest none ; where- 
upon thou art not here so much honored, nor accepted of, as thou 
art elsewhere ; which things they speak because he wrought no 
miracle in Nazareth. (Mark vi. 5.) 

24.] Verily I say. — Christ showeth his countrymen that their 
unbelief hindered miracles being shown unto them. 

25.] I tell you. — These examples are to show that God often- 
times, in the communicating of his graces, prefers strangers and 
such as are far from him, before those that are near and domestic 
unto his word, if they prove unworthy. Shut up. — Without rain. 



LUKE V. 357 

26.] Sarepta. — A city lying between Tyre and Sidon. 

27.] Naaman. — This Naaman, a rich man and a stranger, ac- 
knowledged God's power through the ministry of Elias, of whom 
the people of Israel had but little esteem. 

28.] Filled with wrath. — They took this for blasphemy, for 
they were sensible that Christ threatened the grace of God should 
be transported elsewhere. 

30.] Passing. — Restrained their power to move against him ; or, 
made himself invisible to their sight. 

31.] Capernaum. — Christ conversed so often in this city that 
some called it his city. 

36.] What a word. — How r p^ verful and operative, in a moment 
it produceth its effects. 

38.] They besought. — His disciples, or those of Peter's house- 
hold. 

39.] He stood. — He came and stood nigh where she lay, re- 
buked the fever by his will. Having command and power over it, 
as over all evil spirits or diseases. 

40.] Healed them. — Whereby he evidently showed that it was 
he whom God had promised for a Saviour and deliverer. 

41.] Suffered. — Permitted them not to witness that he was the 
Christ, as many wicked professors do. 

42.] Stayed him. — The zeal and great affection of this people 
shall condemn all lukewarm professors. 



Chapter V. 



1.] To hear. — These people being ill-instructed by the scribes 
and Pharisees, who had with their Babel men tradition creed falsi- 
fied the law, desired to understand the pure truth out of the 
mouth of the Saviour Christ ; and not men-traditions false, as also 
now taught by many men-tradition Babel creeds of men's manu- 
facture, who take glory and titles to themselves as if they were 
wise above God's gospel truths. 

5.] At thy word. — Peter herein showed a willing obedience. 

8.] Depart. — Peter finding in Christ a divine and extraordinary 
virtue, did presently feel within himself the natural terrors and 



358 LUKE V. 

apprehensions of the soul of a sinful man when God's spirit-power 
draws near to him in demonstration of his gospel truths, which 
terrors, being overcome by faith in his grace, are changed into an 
humble reverence and adoration. 

9.] He was astonished. — The sense of God's presence amazed 
him. John xv. 5 : Without me ye can do nothing. 

13.] And touched. — The allegory or spiritual signification taken 
from hence gives us to understand that the leprosy and corruption 
rooted in our nature cannot be cured except touched by the spirit 
power of God, in Christ's spirit word that impregnates the soul 
spirit egg mind intellect with quickening immortal life from God, 
and lights up the new creature spirit born with life's eternal lamp, 
with spirit love oil that expands and burns on through the cease- 
less ages of eternity ; pulsating love. 

14.] Tell no man. — This prohibition, and others of the like 
nature, were because the proper time of his being revealed was not 
yet come. 

17.] The power. — God, whose actions are free in a superlative 
degree, would show his power in delivering them there through 
Christ, who also told them so. (Acts xi. 21.) 

20.] Thy sins. — He toucheth first the principal cause and origin 
of all our plagues and diseases. 

24.] I say unto thee. — I command thee as having power to do 
it. 

32.] The righteous. — Such as are puffed up with a vain ascrib- 
ing of righteousness to themselves, who are unspirit born, and 
filled with self-applauding righteousness, are not righteous ; they 
need a physician. 

35.] Shall they fast. — Then shall they have cause to fast, and 
be sorrowful through the afflictions and straits which they must 
suffer. 

38.] New wine. — Beautiful illustration. The old Adamic body, 
with the old Adamic blood life, lust begotten old nature Adam 
of the earth earthy, is not the receptacle of spirit love life immor- 
tal pulsations. But the new creature in Christ Jesus is the bottle 
to hold the new heavenly spirit love holy pure wine of heaven's 
vintage ; Christ being the vine, and his father the husbandman. 
John xv. 5 : I am the vine. (2 Cor. v. 17.) 



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Chapter VI. 

1.] The second. — Levit. xxiii. 15, 16: At which time wheat 
was ripe and ripening ; there called corn. 

4.] Not lawful. — Otherwise, then at such times as necessity 
required it to be done. 

5.] Is Lord. — Having power to measure or moderate or abolish 
the Jewish sabbath. 

7.] An accusation. — As a transgressor of the law and con- 
temner of days of rest. 

9.] Is it lawful. — Christ would first convince them of their 
malice before he healed the party. Destroy it. — Let it perish ; 
for he that suffereth his neighbor to perish, when it lieth in his 
power to save him without periling his own life, slayeth him. 

12.] All night. — Secret prayers alone, like Jesus taught, if they 
are blessed as he was with communion with his spirit life Father. 
It is wholly for them to judge how long, while their zeal and ne- 
cessities dictate. Christ Jesus had the mission of immortal life 
redemption for all spirit born of God through his blood life sacri- 
fice ; thus his prayer intercessions for others account for the 
length. 

19.] There went. — As there now issues spirit healing and God 
begetting by his spirit word life immortal power in the souls and 
hearts of all true believers. 

20.] Ye poor. — They who through poverty and afflictions are 
so mortified that they are thoroughly humbled, and wholly subject 
themselves to God. 

22.] Shall separate you. — Excommunicate you from the ex- 
ternal communion of any church. 

26.] When all men. — When you shall have the general ap- 
plause and favor of the world, which you cannot have nor obtain 
without framing yourselves to their wicked works, and thereby 
worshiping Satan, the prince of darkness, falsehoods, slanders, 
nicknames, blasphemies, and dances, lusts, wars, drunkenness, and 
all evils that wrong God's service. 

27.] Which hear. — Which have the gift of my Spirit to re- 
ceive my doctrine into your minds, by an upright judgment and 
obedience of faith. 

29.] That taketh. — As if he should say, having borne a small 
loss, be prepared to suffer a greater. 



360 LUKE VII. 

30.] Thy goods. — He exhorts men not to be enraged for the 
loss of goods. 

37.] Judge not. — Be not ill affected, sharp-sighted, or harsh in 
reproving or judging another. 

38.] With the same measure. — How plainly the awful denuncia- 
tion falls on those who mete out to their neighbors and kindred 
an eternal, unending, continuous, relentless torture fire ! 

39.] Blind lead. — Our dear Redeemer plainly states the case. 
Unspirit born mere blood life beings, full of sin and lust, cannot 
discern spiritual life immortal things. 

40.] Shall be. — By spirit birth of Christ's good seed spirit life 
immortal. 

42.] Thou hypocrite. — The Lord Christ hath at all times 
showed the great dislike he had of hypocrites, as of wicked and 
accursed men. 

43.] For a good. — Or, the tree is not good which brings forth 
evil fruit. The mortals whose acts and deeds are evil are not re- 
ceptacles of the good spirit of Christ. 

45.] Of the abundance. — The soul mind intellect or spirit egg, 
when spirit born of Christ's good seed, partakes of Christ's good 
spirit ; and if filled with it, holiness, love, good fruits. 

46.] Why call ye me Lord? — All who claim to be children of 
Grod, and say, Lord, Lord, and do evil, willful acts of sin, are 
hypocrites. 1 John iii. 8 : He that committeth sin is of the devil. 

48.] Upon a rock. — Deut. xxxii. 4 : Grod is the rock. 

49.] Immediately it fell. — This similitude of the two houses 
shows the difference there is between true godliness and hypocrisy, 
men tradition creeds and Glod's statute Scripture laws of truth. 
For they, as church members, make a profession of Christianity 
outwardly in appearance ; but when trial comes true godliness 
continues firm against all oppositions, it clings to the rock Scrip- 
ture truths, whereas hypocrites vanish into nothing at blood life 
death. 



Chapter VII. 



6.] Sent friends. — To show him thereby so much the more 
honor. 

9.] Great faith. — Christ did praise this Gentile, because he 
had confidence. 



LUKE V1L 361 

1G.] God hath visited. — To bring order out of chaos caused by 
sin. 

21.] Plagues, and of evil spirits. — Evil spirits were great evils. 
They were the tare seed children of the devil, begotten by sowing 
evil tare seed in the soul spirit egg mind. 

22.] Tell John. — As if he had said, That which ye have seen 
and heard sufficiently witnesseth what I am. To the poor. — 
Those who are affected and cast down with a sense of their mis- 
ery, for there are no others that receive profit of the gospel 
preached unto them. 

29.] Justified. — Those baptized of John acknowledged and de- 
fended God's honor, in truth of his doctrine of grace preached by 
John, confirmed by Christ, against the accusations and reproofs 
of the Pharisees and D.D.'s, after they had embraced it with a 
lively faith. 

30.] Rejected. — Or, disannulled. That is to say, they did by 
their incredulity cause the preaching of God's grace, by which, 
through faith and spirit birth new creature holiness, life immortal 
could be obtained, without which to them the gospel grace of 
God was of no benefit whatever. Against themselves. — To their 
own perdition. 

38.] Weeping. — She showed clearly that God's mercy spirit was 
chiding her for her past sins, of which she then regretted that she 
had been led by an unclean spirit astray into by and forbidden 
paths ; her penitential tears demonstrated heart blood life sorrow. 

41.] A certain creditor. — The Lord telleth this Pharisee, who 
was not an adversary, yet he held to the old sect in part, that he 
ought not to despise this woman so much beneath himself, because 
he was a sinner as well as she, and liable to God's judgments, and 
had need of his grace in Christ to obtain remission. 

44.] No water. — According to the custom in those days, before 
they did sit down to the table, especially when a man came out 
of the country ; yet he upbraids not his host with bad entertain- 
ment, but shows that this woman's love was greater than his. 
And as spirit love is the life blood of the new spirit born creature 
in Christ Jesus which it pulsates eternally, love was the great 
essential to immortal life. 

47.] For she loved. — Love is not here set down as the cause, 
but the fruits of forgiveness and spirit birth new creature spirit 
life immortal; those that love not are not forgiven, nor spirit born 
of God ; for God is love, and love fulfills the law of God. 
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362 LUKE VIII. 

48.] Thy sins. — The woman, according to the Lord's discourse, 
having by her tears showed repentance and love for the cause of 
Christ, had already received the pardon of her sins, and felt God's 
grace love in her heart blood life ; therefore that which he speaks 
here is but a declaration and greater confirmation of this benefit. 



Chapter VIII. 



8.] Ears to hear. — To comprehend and give faith here unto all 
who desire immortal spirit life. 

10.] In parables. — Unspirit born, unholy nature life beings, 
cannot discern the things of the spirit life eternal, like Paul, while 
he followed men creeds of the Jews, until the scales fell. 

12.] Lest they. — All who are slaves to the devil, and travel 
hell's broad dance sin lust way, are blinded by satanic lust, and 
evil desires, creed lies, lest they hear truth and live. 

13.] A while believe. — At a protracted meeting, when God's 
spirit strives greatly with the people, they, in a manner, catch the 
sweet songs of Zion's melody, and finally believe ; it is rather 
popular then, but they love the silly dance, or some of the thou- 
sands of Satan's devices, and they glide quickly back into sin's 
maelstrom and perish. 

14.] No fruit. — Absorbed with the fashions of the silly, and 
wordly aspirations for office, desire to lay up treasures on earth, 
where they make but a brief stay, and are liable every moment to 
be called away from: and cares drive from their minds all their 
former brief thoughts of treasures in heaven, they die spirit dis- 
eased paupers ; their end is unfruitful, and they reap at blood 
life's close a rotten body (Gal. vi. 7, 8, 15). 

15.] With patience. — Persevering to the close of blood life's 
probation trial, amidst all their trials and afflictions, which is as it 
were, the fullness and ripeness of the spirit born new creature in 
Christ Jesus love fruits. 

24.] Master, we perish. — This expression showeth that the 
disciples were quite hopeless. 

26.] Gadarenes. — The Gadarenes were beyond Jordan, east- 
ward, in whose land was the lake into which the swine violently 
precipitated themselves; thus Satan's tare children were immersed. 



LUKE IX. 363 

28.] Torment me not. — This word signifieth to put upon the rack, 
and showeth that the devil's tare seed children, after death of blood 
life body, unclean spirits are tormented at the presence of Christ. 
Such do not like to hear about religion. 

31.] Into the deep. — Into solitary boundless darkness, chaos 
beneath lighted space. 

37.] To depart. — -Great fear of the power that commanded 
the devil's unclean spirits tare seed children to leave the poor 
man, and their deeds being evil they disliked the gospel light ; 
thus all unspirit born sinners would feel ; if it were possible for 
them to go to heaven, no happiness could they enjoy there. 

38.] Be with him. — Might constantly follow him like his other 
disciples. 

39.] Return to. — Christ knew that he could do him better 
service absent than present. And show. — Christ would have this 
wonderful thing published, the better to testify this people's ingrat- 
itude, who desired him to go out of their borders (Matt. viii. 34). 

46.] Touched me. — In a different manner from the others 
which were in the throng ; the mere using forms of prayer to 
touch the Lord takes no saving life immortal virtue. 

54.] And called. — That persons present might perceive the 
power of his word. His will in silence had the same power ; 
thus it is in secret humble childlike prayers. 

55.] She arose. — Whereby the Lord showed that he is the 
fountain of life. Give her meat. — To show that she was truly 
alive, for a dead body can neither eat nor drink. 

56.] Were astonished. — For miracles were deeply thus im- 
printed on. their minds. They should tell. — If a mortal had done 
such a miracle his selfish vain glory would have desired the ap- 
plause of his poor vain fellow mortals, as a child doth desire 
bubbles. 



Chapter IX. 



1.] Gave them power. — This power of working miracles was 
given them for a confirmation of the gospel doctrines they taught. 

2.] The kingdom of God. — Spirit birth holiness. The gospel, 
whereby Glod erecteth his kingdom among those spirit born new 
creatures in Christ Jesus. 



384 LUKE IX. 

10.] The city. — Into the territory of Bethsaida, which was situ- 
ated near the lake of Grennesaret. 

11.] And healed. — Jesus doing these wonders showed more 
and more that he was the Messias, that he might draw mortals to 
give attention to his sayings of truth, and receive his divine 
heavenly spirit birth doctrines of holiness to the Lord. 

14.] Five thousand. — Matt. xiv. 21 : Is added besides women 
and children. 

16.] Looking. — Teaching us by this miracle and example to 
lift up our thoughts towards heaven's Grod. 

19.] Is risen again. — This folly was common amongst the Jews, 
to believe the souls of such as were dead (according to Pythago- 
ras's opinion) were issued into other bodies. 

22.] Be raised. — He mentions his resurrection openly, because 
his disciples should not be quite discouraged when they should 
see him suffer the woman's blood life seed body to be slain as the 
last sacrificial offering, to open a door to heaven. 

26.] In his own. — Spirit word power Son of Grod glory, and in 
his spirit Father's glory, and the children spirit born of his spirit 
word power angelic glory. Luke xx. 36 : And are the children 
of Grod, being the children of the resurrection. 

27.] See the kingdom. — Erected and forwarded by the preach- 
ing of the gospel. 

32.] They saio. — Moses and Elias, both of whose blood life 
bodies had perished and returned to earth elements as if they had 
never been animate with life obedience to their soul spirit egg 
mind wills. Eph. ii. 1. 

33.] Not knowing. — Peter being ravished into deep astonish- 
ment and taken by surprise, and overpowered by the glory of 
Christ's spirit body, Christ's glory did so affect him, that it 
overpowered Peter's nature reasoning faculties, being beyond the 
mortal powers to comprehend ; thus he knew not the folly of what 
he said, requiring rest rather than labor and pains. 

34.] Them. — The apostles, because their mortal visions were 
not adapted to look upon such glory light, mortal eyes quail be- 
fore bright sun rays. » 

39.] Teareth him. — Bruised him, and gave him pain and sor- 
row, — deranged his mind. 

42.] Rebuked. — He commanded with threatening that he 
should come out of the child. 

44.] Sink down. — Be quick and ready to hear these words, 



LUKE X. 365 

and having heard them be sure to remember them well. The 
passwords of men's secret societies are merely for recognizance. 

46.] A reasoning. — Argument. Matt, xviii. 4 : Whosoever 
therefore shall humble himself as a little child (not pope, cardinal, 
bishop, D.D., or any other), the same is greatest in the kingdom 
of heaven. 

47.] The thought. — The inward thoughts of worldly ambition, 
which brought them into these disputes ; then as to-day, such as 
seek titles for self-aggrandizement obey the tempter as did Eve 
in Eden. 

48.] For he. — I give you this child example, because that true 
greatness before God consists in childlike innocence, sincerity, and 
humanity, and pure spirit love, which if all Adam's race partook 
of, all churches of real Christians would be as one in supreme love 
to God, and to each other, as to themselves ; all wars would end 
if love pervaded the earth, and universal peace would pervade the 
earth. 

50.] Is for lis. — Whilst he hinders us not, and that God by 
such means is honored. 

53.] Bid not. — Or would not, by reason of the extreme hatred 
which existed then between the Jews and Samaritans. 

54.] Command. — They thought thereby to do a just thing, 
and acceptable to God, considering the inveterate wickedness of 
the Samaritans. 

55.] Ye know not. — You do not judge rightly this emotion of 
yours, it is but a kind of hatred, or revenge' and carnal wrath, and 
opposition to patience and love. 

58.] Foxes have holes. — Mortals must not think that by fol- 
lowing Christ they can become thereby rich in this world. 



Chapter X. 



1.] Other seventy. — The Lord sends out his servants before 
him to announce his coming in spirit love power. 

4.] Salute no man. — A hyperbolical term, viz., be careful and 
think upon nothing but the commission which I give you, and be 
not drawn away by any offices of friendship. 

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366 LUKE X. 

6.] The son. — Viz., some person capable of receiving the bless- 
ing which you have pronounced, and who is disposed to receive 
the doctrine of the gospel. 

7.] Eating and drinking. — Not salary, nor station, but neces- 
sary food and drink, in travels and lodging, in the place where 
night comes upon the messenger of the gospel. 

9.] And heal. — For confirmation of the truth of the gospel 
you preach, and as remuneration to the family for your food and 
other hospitality you receive of them, also above all, their souls 
feed with spiritual food, light, love, and gospel truth's spiritual 
meanings. 

12.] In that day. — Namely, of the last judgment. 

13.] Chorazin, Bethsaida. — Two cities situate on the shore 
of the lake of Grennesaret. Mighty works. — Viz., wonders and 
miracles, which bear witness of Grod's power. 

17.] Even the devils. — Whereby they had sufficient experience 
that Christ's word was not in vain. Through thy name. — That 
is, we are thy ministers, using thy authority proxy to drive them 
out. 

18.] I beheld. — The meaning is, do not think all is accomplished 
when devils, or unclean spirit sin seed evil falsehood nicknamers, 
blasphemers, or other evil unclean tare seed creatures, are driven 
out of the soul spirit egg mind, evil nature birth being. 

20.] Rejoice not. — Fix not upon it as the principal comfort 
whereof you have to rejoice. But rather rejoice. — Because you 
have through spirit birth holiness new creature life love begotten 
spirit existence, immortal life. 

21.] Rejoiced. — In love of his spirit Father will that fully 
accorded with his selection of his humble apostle's childlike love 
and obedience to his commands, and that gave not to self-exalted 
potentates, nor worldly wise collegiates, the exclusive favor of 
spirit birth life immortal spirit life wisdom from heaven, but unto 
babes, or children spirit born of spirit love. 

22.] All things. — Spirit life's immortal love seed, goodness, 
mercy, and power, and infinite spirit life love atributes. 

25.] Tempted him. — For if Christ had answered him, he, like 
most lawyers and men creed worshipers are tricky dissemblers, it 
would have been like placing pearls before swine. 

30.] A certain man. — A Jew. By this parable is shown that 
all men, even professed enemies, as the Jews and Samaritans were 
(John iv. 9), and strangers unacquainted with each other, as this 



LUKE XL 367 

Jew was to this Samaritan, are comprehended in the law under 
the name of neighbor. And besides that, true charity consists 
not in any show and profession of conjunction and affection, but 
in the real work of doing good. And, moreover, that the ignorance 
of many took outward show of sanctity and superiority, assumed 
by church priests, bishops, and popes as a reality. 

31.] A certain priest. — He shows the great uncharitableness 
that was among the Jews. Passed by. — Without being moved to 
compassion. 

36.] Was neighbor. — That is to say, had done that which the 
law had commanded. Judging truly of the meaning of loving a 
neighbor, they would, if they loved their neighbor as themselves, 
pray that all who were not saved in heaven might, as they will, 
remain in death. 

37.] Do thou. — Viz., help those that have need of it, though 
they be unknown to thee : so Christ shows us who they are we 
should esteem for our neighbors. The most sacred way to render 
love our neighbor as ourselves, is to freely preach and teach the 
way to heaven, pray to God in secret for them. 

41.] Thou art careful. — Christ reprehendeth two faults in 
Martha, one that her mind and strength was absorbed too much 
in the cares for the blood life body. 

42.] Hath chosen. — Viz., hath addicted herself to the true 
duty of receiving my words which are spirit truth, and immortal 
spirit life in all who receive and believe and obey them until blood 
life's probation closes. 



Chapter XI. 



5.] Which of you. — By this similitude he showeth that we 
should not be dejected, though we do not immediately receive 
what we earnestly desire. 

10.] Every one. — The Lord's promises are all conditional, and 
to all Adam's race while in probation blood life existence. That 
asketh. — That which is in accordance with God's will. 

13.] Holy Spirit. — For without the grace of God's Spirit all 
things that men receive shall be turned into evil unto them. 

14.] And it was. — The evil spirit unclean was dumb, and made 
the man dumb. 



368 LUKE VI. 

15.] Beelzebub. — Their evil natures were the same as nick- 
nainers at this day. 

23.] Is against me. — Those that apply not themselves to the 
service of Christ for the destruction of the kingdom of Satan 
shall not be esteemed his, for they are against him. (Matt. xii. 30.) 

24.] Seeking rest. — A place to remain and do according to 
wonted custom. 

28.] Yea, rather. — This woman is covertly reproved because 
she doth not prefer the chiefest praise which should be given to 
Christ, namely, that he makes us happy when he unites us unto 
him by his word through spirit birth of his good seed from his 
spirit Father, who alone hath immortal spirit life to impart. 

29.] Evil generation. — He calls the Jews so, who were degen- 
erated far from the holiness of their forefathers by way of tradi- 
tion creeds of men they followed instead of the Scripture laws 
and testimonies which, as to-day, church creeds pervert. 

33.] No man. — Christ addeth this to his former discourse to 
show that, having proposed the doctrine of salvation, he would put 
it in full evidence and power after his resurrection. 

38.] Washed. — Superstitious tradition men creed washings, 
taught by the Pharisees. 

39.] Now do ye. — Thus the Lord makes use of their outward 
ceremonial washings to rebuke them for not seeking inward soul 
spirit mind cleansing from evil thoughts. 

40.] He that. — God the creator both of the body and souls, first 
germinating pair in Eden, requireth also to be served with pure 
soul spirit born life holy,' without which no one is immortal. 

41.] Give. — Immersion in water does not purify the heart or 
soul void of love. 

43.] Ye love. — Christ reproveth and judgeth the ambition of 
the scribes and Pharisees. They took glory to themselves by 
receiving public salutations, and occupying chief seats. 

44.] Appear not. — Which are covered on the outside, whereby 
the bones and carrion that are within them cannot be seen. Monu- 
ments of marble or outside features often cover a den of vipers. 
The hypocrite with a D.D. flag hath within nests of viper nick- 
names that their evil vile nature hatches out to order of unsanctified 
devils. 

45.] Of the laicyers. — One of the doctors of the law. Men's 
manufactured laws are always defective, and no amount of D.D. 
or lawyer doctoring can restore them to perfect health. 



LUKE XII. 369 

46.] Woe unto you also, ye lawyers. — The profession of law is, 
if wholly on the side of equity justice, an honorable profession ; 
but to-day, as it ever hath been since the fall of man, the hearts 
and mind thoughts of lawyers are mostly evil continually ; they 
seek official stations. But woe, woe to the nation or state whose 
rulers and law-makers are lawyers and warriors. 

47.] Woe unto you. — (Lawyers.) Ye seduce clients with small 
reward on your lips, but robbery counsel fee in your hearts and 
minds ; ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers 
killed them. 

49.] The wisdom. — Christ Jesus the wisdom of God in creation 
and salvation, and truth knowledge, and immortal life. 

50.] This generation. — Because they reject and crucify Jesus 
the fountain of spirit life ; also on those alive at time's close. 

52.] Woe unto you, lawyers. — By your false statements and 
D.D. usurpations, you have appropriated to yourselves only the 
power of expounding the law of God, and commissioning others 
to do the same, thereby captivating men's consciences to your 
opinions, and despoiling them of all liberty of judgment and 
knowledge. Key of knowledge. — Pure truthful doctrine, and the 
understanding of holy Scripture. 

54.] Accuse him. — As a transgressor of the law, and a disturber 
of the common peace. 



Chapter XII. 



4.] My friends. — God's spirit begotten and spirit born children 
are all the seed and friends of Christ. That kill. — Yet not with- 
out God's suiFerance, having no power of themselves. Mortals in 
temporal power can only kill the blood life body ; God in a word 
can slay soul and body. 

5.] Into hell. — Gehenna of fire. An Hebrew word which 
signifieth the valley of Hinnom, which was a place near Jerusalem 
where idolaters did burn their children in their worship of their 
myth god Moloch. 

10.] Blasphemeth. — By imputing Christ's miracles to Satan, 
and nicknaming him Beelzebub. The same devil evil spirit is in all 
nicknamers of persons and places, thereby marring their peace 
and truth names. Of such are the unforgiven sin crimes. 
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370 LUKE XII. 

14.] Who made. — Christ's mission being spiritual life immortal 
development. 

16.] A certain rich man. — Christ by this parable would show 
the vanity and folly of such, who gather and lay up much riches. 

19.] Soul, thou hast. — This is the common argument or feeling 
of those who have a superabundance of earthly treasures, when 
they place their whole content and felicity therein ; they become 
miserly, selfish, and are grasping for all within their earth low 
reach, regarding not others' feelings. 

20.] Thou fool, this night thy soul. — James v. 20 : He which 
converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul 
from death. Heb. x. 39 : Believe to the saving of the soul. Acts 
iii. 23 : Every soul which will not hear that prophet (Christ 
Jesus) shall be destroyed. Ezek. xviii. 4, 20 : The soul that 
sinneth it shall die. 

21.] That layeth up treasure. — He that heapeth up wealth to 
gratify his insatiable covetousness before he makes provisions of 
God's grace and blessing. 

23.] The life. — All life and power to live, move, and have a 
being comes from God's spirit word. 

26.] For the rest. — For greater and more important things to 
preserve your soul alive ; which dependeth upon your obedience 
to God's commands. 

27.] The lilies. — The goodness of God which showeth itself in 
the herbs and flowers far exceedeth all man can do by his riches or 
power. Li all his glory. — Which is greatly extolled (1 Kings 
iii. 13). Solomon could not impart life in any form, therefore the 
living lily infinitely excelled the inanimate gold and dead matter 
in Solomon's temple. 

29.] Doubtful mind. — Or troubled with things that pertain to 
God's power, or to have elevated and doubtful thoughts, which 
happen to such as do not steadfastly rely upon God. John xv. 5 : 
Without me ye can do nothing. 

33.] Sell. — Bestow of principal as well as income ; if requisite, 
give alms. Use your wealth and talents in doing good. Let that 
which you regard as your chief good be in heaven. 

34.] Your heart. — Animal affections and lust desires hold the 
soul mind in subjection to earthly wealth. 

35.] Your lights. — Ps. xxvii. 1 : The Lord is my light and my 
salvation ; the Lord is the strength of my life ; of whom shall I 
be afraid ? xlix. 15 : God will redeem my soul from the power of 



LUKE XII. 371 

the grave. Isa. lx. 19 : The Lord shall be unto thee an everlast- 
ing light. John viii. 12 : I am the light of the world: he that 
followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light 
of life. 

37.] Shall gird himself. — Figurative terms, the spiritual mean- 
ing of which is that Christ will with unspeakable charity distribute 
and dispense his everlasting life stores unto his spirit begotten 
children of light, even as a master would who should serve his 
servants at table. 

38.] Second watch. — From nine in the evening to twelve. 
Third watch, twelve to three in the morning. 

40.] Cometh. — There is nothing surer than his coming, but the 
hour is uncertain, that all men may keep themselves upon the 
watch for blood life death. 

48.] Worthy of stripes. — Therefore ignorance is not blameless. 
James i. 5 : Ask of God. 

49.] What will I. — Christ spake of the fire of divisions, secta- 
rian creeds of men. Jews with circumcision's gulf between them 
and the gospel dispensation to the Gentiles, by way of spirit birth 
and Holy Ghost fire baptism. 

50.] Baptism. — Of blood. The woman's seed blood life's holy 
sacrificial offering, spirit begotten by way of the word of the 
Lord God spoken in Eden some four thousand years previous. 
(Gen. iii. 15.) 

57.] Of yourselves. — Having so many miraculous proofs of the 
truth. 

58.] When thou. — When you are indebted to God for each 
pulsation of nature's blood life sustenance, and preservation from 
death, and you raise not grateful thanks of love and adoration 
gratitude for this life's blessings, how can you imagine that you 
shall be resurrected to spirit life, that pulsates only spirit love, 
when you are. by nature birth but the products of sin's lust seed 
sentenced to death ; having not a farthing's value of redemption 
life by way of spirit love birth, of Christ's good and holy light 
life immortal seed. 

59.] The very last mite. — The last mite of probation blood life, 
in the prison grave. 



372 LUKE XIII. 



Chapter XIII. 

2.] Suppose ye. — These chances you have no right to claim as 
giving you leave to indulge any rash judgments (John ix. 2). 

3.] / tell you, nay. — All mortals on earth stand or fall for 
themselves, and whether their neighbors do right or wrong, they 
have no benefits arising from the wrong doings of their fellow- 
mortals. Each must repent and do right, or inevitably perish, be 
blotted out of existence. As pain gives warning through the 
body nerves that part of the living mortal body is injured, the 
conscious soul spirit egg mind's intellectual nerve gives warnings 
of the wounds or bruises sins have made. 

4.] The tower. — On the southeast of the walls of Jerusalem, 
beneath which was the pool of siloa. 

6.] Parable. — The meaning of which is, to show God's mercy 
and long forbearance towards the rebellious and faithless nation of 
the Jews. 

7.] Three years. — Subsequent to the baptism of Jesus in Jor- 
dan by the wilderness preacher, John the Baptist. Cumber eth it. 
— It is fruitless. 

11.] A spirit. — Unclean spirit, or tare seed child of the devil, 
had by its evil power drawn up or contracted the nerves of her 
body and made it crooked. 

15.] Hypocrite. — He condemned Jesus for releasing the woman 
from her infirm bondage to Satan. 

16.] Eighteen years. — Which may teach us not to despair of 
salvation if we have neglected to seek salvation in youth. 

23.] Are there few. — This question was because so few re- 
ceived the truths of the gospel. 

24.] Strive. — Christ, according to his usual custom, doth not 
answer the curious questioner, or the tricky lawyer Pharisee, but 
silently avoweth that indeed there are but few. Therefore all 
ought, if they would act the part of rational intelligences, strive 
to be of that little number. 

25.] When once. — Having spoken of the way, and of the en- 
deavor wherewith each mortal for themselves (it being an indi- 
vidual matter of life or death) must strive to attain to life ever- 
lasting. 

26.] We have eaten. — Partaken the bread, and drank, partaken 
the wine emblems. They had professed by outward ceremonies to 



LUKE XIV. 373 

be his friends, but were never spirit begotten (1 John v. 18) 
new creatures in Christ (2 Cor. v. 17 ; GUI. vi. 15). 

28.] There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. — Jews 
have for near two thousand years as a nation wept and mourned 
for their national bereavement in vain. Still they look back to 
Abraham's covenant they broke, and to Isaac and Jacob saved, 
and they lost forever. 

29.] Come. — From every point of compass on earth all spirit 
born holy, at blood life's probation, death, receive a spirit body, 
and are welcomed to God's spirit kingdom of holiness, truth, and 
love life immortal. 

30.] Last which shall be first. — Jews were first called to re- 
ceive the King of spirit life glory. They rejected his spirit 
grace sovereignty, and then the Gentiles were offered conditional 
grace pardon, and they now are first. 

32.] That fox. — Sly, evil, subtle, wicked man. To-day and 
to-morrow. — A brief time. I shall be perfected ; shall have com- 
pleted salvation's grace conditional developments ; and the third, 
or resurrection day, will perfect it all. 

33.] / must walk. — Remain free as I am a few days, then go 
up to Jerusalem. 

34.] Would I. — Or I would cheerfully have saved you by im- 
parting to you of my spirit love life immortal seed, but ye would 
not. 

35. ] Your house. — Temple at Jerusalem, and spiritual house 
emblem. 



Chapter XIV. 



4.] Held their peace. — Like politicians, they feared incurring 
the people's hatred. 

5.] Answered. — He replied vocally to their inward secret 
thoughts. 

7.] A parable. — Showing the importance of humility. 

8.] Highest room. — Next seat to the principal personage. 
Scribes and Pharisees sought for worldly approbation and self- 
aggrandizement. 

9.] Lowest room. — Popes, cardinals, bishops, and many kings 
and preachers, assume and are by nature in lust birth officials in 

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374 LUKE XIV. 

church and state ; others, by commission from their fellow creed 
or craftsmen, seek to lord it over God's heritage. Like begets its 
like in nature, ethics, and theology. 

11.] Exalteih himself. — All spirit born holy Christians humble 
themselves and exalt God. 

12.] Call not thy friends. — If God had only called his friends 
that had always obeyed his imperative statute laws and loved him 
supremely, Adam's race of rebels, accursed to death annihilation, 
would never have had an offer of conditional grace pardon and an 
invitation to freely partake of the heavenly spirit life immortal 
feast of love. Rom. v. 10 : Confine not your hospitality to rela- 
tives and friends who will return it, but give to the poor. 

14.] Resurrection of the just. — John xi. 25 : I am the resur- 
rection and the life. 

15.] That shall eat bread in the kingdom of God. — Spirit 
born new spirit creature in Christ Jesus, that shall feed on heav- 
enly spirit bread, love eternal. 

16.] A certain man. — Christ calls their minds back from those 
heavenly contemplations to the serious meditation of the means 
of attaining to the said happiness, which lieth in the acceptance 
of God's grace in Christ. 

17. J Come. — Christ upbraids the Jews with their unthankful- 
ness, because they would not feed upon the holy meat which was 
presented to them, though long since they were invited to it. 

18.] And they all. — Those who have their hearts' blood life 
affections fixed and attached to worldly affairs ; all the Jews who 
rejected Christ Jesus. 

23.] Compel them to come in. — Not by force. 2 Cor. v. 11 : 
Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men ; by 
earnest, persevering entreaty. 

26.] And hate not.— The carnal nature is full of sin. All who 
aspire to spirit birth new spirit creature life immortal must 
renounce all manner of carnal love which is contrary to me, and 
feel greater love and desires for their heavenly spirit love life 
eternal Father. 

27.] Bear his cross. — Boldly proclaim himself on the Lord's 
side, and proclaim his gospel Scripture truths un contaminated by 
the world, the flesh, or the devil. 

28.] For which of you. — Those who had not strength and 
power to keep God's law that should bear them to heaven, and 
would not accept the gospel tower of salvation, Jesus' proffered aid 



LUKE XV. 375 

full and free, only make themselves trouble without any reward 
whatever for their folly, false creeds and hypocrisy. 

33.] Forsakeili not all. — All that he hath, blood life's pro- 
bation, must be surrendered, and spirit life immortal must be 
sought of God in Christ's appointed way. 

34.] Salt is good. — To season and preserve nature blood life 
food from rottenness. Thus spirit love faith holiness to the Lord 
preserves the spirit soul life ; when the earth salt hath lost its pre- 
serving quality, the body rots. 

35.] He that hath. — He shows that it is not given to all men 
to comprehend and conceive these things intellectually ; they 
require spirit birth light. 



Chapter XV. 



4.] What man. — The end of all these similitudes is to show 
God's goodness and care in calling sinners to repentance. 

7.] Joy shall be in heaven. — -God is love in one of his infinite 
attributes. All heaven's inhabitants are spirit children of God. 
They all in love rejoice at the salvation of a repentant sinner who 
is on the way to spirit birth, and new creature life of love in 
unison with them. 

12.] Give me. — The younger represents notorious sinners, 
vigorous in young blood life strength that dances at night to 
gratify carnal nature, that like the moth dashes into the candle 
and is burned. Such soon spend all substance given them by 
parents or others in recreations, dissipation, folly, madness. 

22.] Best robe. — The dissipated insane young man in poverty 
repents and returns by breaking off his sins, by doing right. He 
returns to his senses, is spirit born and saved. 

25.] His elder son. — Christ here reproves the Jews, also the 
disaffection and great churlishness of such as are discontented, 
when God shows mercy to poor wretched and miserable Gentile 
sinners. And his mercy ends their misery. 

28.] Entreated. — Did freely instruct and advise him what his 
duty was. 

29.] Do I serve. — Hypocrites often accuse God of injustice, 



376 LUKE XVI. 

and esteem themselves righteous as moralists, temperate, often for 
lazy poverty. 

32.] Was dead. — The soul spirit egg mind was inebriated with 
sin's narcotic, and dead to reflection, and when the dead drunk 
libertine dancer became sober in his extreme poverty he began to 
reflect. 



Chapter XVI. 



1.] Steward. — One intrusted with property to be used accord- 
ing to the will of its owner. 

2.] No longer steward. — How many silly mortals seek for office 
in church and state, and are tempted by the devil, and obey him 
and die. 

8.] Commended. — Not for his injustice wickedness, but for his 
sagacity or care for nature life's necessities. 

9.] Friends. — Use the mammon of unrighteousness, worldly 
treasures, in such a manner as Christ commands. Feed the hungry, 
clothe the naked, that when you die and close blood life's pro- 
bation stewardship, you may be received into heaven by way of 
spirit birth holiness spirit of Christ love. 

11.] The true. — The spiritual riches, which only are the true 
permanent treasures of mortals, and enduring happiness. All 
others are transitory. 

12.] Another mail's. — Worldly external wealth, which mortals 
at blood life death must leave behind for others. 

15.] Justify yourselves. — Pretend before men to be just. The 
wicked who overreach their unsuspecting neighbors and rob them 
of their home and farm, often reply, to cloak their demon con- 
science, " I done as I agreed," when truth reveals the agreement 
was a vicious fraud, practised on the one talented hard working 
man by the devil wise serpent swindler. 

16.] Until John. — In the baptism of John and his proclama- 
tion cry of the coming Lord ; Prepare ye the way of the Lord, was 
foretold by the prophets, Isa. xl. 3 : Mai. iii. 1. Men were 
strongly excited, and they pressed to hear and receive the preached 
gospel. 

17.] To fail. — To be without fulfilment, effect, or vain, or fail 
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19.] There teas. — This is a parable of the Jews, who was called 
the rich man. Gen. xiii. 2 : Abram was very rich in cattle, in 
silver, and in gold ; Exod. xxv. 4 : Blue, and purple, and scarlet, 
and fine linen ; xxxix. 3 : Gold worked as wire in the purple and 
fine linen. 

20.] Lazarus. — A certain beggar. The Gentiles of earth who 
fed on crumbs of spiritual Scripture truths at the rich man Jew 
Abraham's synagogue, but were not permitted to enter there unless 
circumcised. 

21.] And desiring to be fed. — Gentiles were called dogs by the 
Jews. Matt. xv. 26 : Jesus said, It is not meet to take the child- 
ren's bread and to cast it to dogs (rich Jews chosen of God's 
grace riches infinite) ; 27 : The Gentile woman of Canaan, of poor 
Lazarus beggar dog tribe said, Truth, Lord ; yet the dogs eat of 
the crumbs which fall from their master's table. Like the Canaan 
woman, Lazarus, the Gentile race representative, desired to be fed 
with the crumbs which fall from the rich man Abraham's Jewish 
table ; by faith Gentiles would and do feed on the rich grace 
promises, spiritual riches above all estimation. 

22.] The beggar died. — Dead to sins, and was resurrected by 
Abraham's faith promise fulfillment. Rom. iv. 16: Therefore it 
is of faith, that it might be by grace, to the end the promise might 
be good to all the seed ; not to that only which is of the law, but 
to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us 
all. 1 Pet. ii. 24 : We being dead to sins should live unto right- 
ousness. Rom. vi. 2 ; Eph. ii. 1 : And you hath he quickened 
who were dead in trespasses and sins (John xi. 25). Thus dead 
Gentiles by faith in Abraham's promise are carried by angels of 
the covenant to Abraham's bosom, by faith they partake of the 
same faith love fountain of spirit life love immortal that Abraham's 
faith partook of when he offered his son, in his submission to 
God's will faith in his promises of the coming sacrifice of salvation 
and immortal life seed. The rich man, the nature seed of Abra- 
ham, died also a spiritual death. Void of faith like Abraham in 
Christ Jesus the promised Messiah ; whom they then rejected, and 
died spiritually ; the want and utter destitution of faith in Jesus 
still keeps the Jews dead, he is the only quickening life. Rich 
man, the Jews, was buried as a nation, and still remains so. 

23.] Lift up. — All the parables ought to be understood figura- 
tively. The Jewish nation was killed by the Roman soldiers 
that had been previously invoked to crucify Jesus of Nazareth, 

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378 LUKE XVI. 

and Bethlehem of Judea, When the Roman army surrounded 
Jerusalem and cut off all escape from their city, and all succor, 
their wall of defense became a barrier to all escape and they made 
civil war upon each other ; and pestilence and famine turned 
women as well as men into unclean spirit demoniac devils, for 
they devoured their children, becoming by hunger's horrid pangs 
the worst species of cannibals. And Jerusalem, the Abrahamic 
city of earthly glory and seat of wisdom, became the prison house 
hell, and their torments ceased not by day or night until death 
ended their horrid pains of starvation ; or if spared from the flames 
of the burning temple, where centered all their hopes of heaven, 
or from horrid death by war hell weapons of Roman devil soldiers, 
who with the same hell malice that their fellow soldiers, or of the 
same nation, crucified the King of the Jews, whom Jewish priests 
and rulers volunteered to surrender to the Roman governor for the 
hell torture death by crucifixion, and released to prey again upon 
them the demon Barabbas from prison, in preference to their only 
Saviour. Then when the same Roman murderous soldiers were 
imprisoning the Jewish rejecters of proffered mercy, and slaying 
and torturing and starving them to death, they had no Saviour, 
King of the Jews ; and in their Jerusalem prison hell the pre- 
viously rich man, parabolic Jews, lifted up their eyes being in 
torment ; and on looking back to Abraham their nature body 
ancestor, who was also by faith father of spirit faith in Christ 
Jesus, whom they had rejected as a Jewish nation and caused to be 
crucified, then they commenced to see the elevation of the Gen- 
tiles, or parabolic Lazarus, who previously was in the extremest 
life immortal poverty infinite, and eternal death poverty ; they 
then under the gospel proclamation of the apostles of the Jewish 
King and Saviour, whom they had rejected, saw the poor Lazarus 
Grentiles placed in fellowship love faith's spirit birth life with 
Abrahamic faith covenant promise of inestimable riches, on com- 
pliance with the gospel proclamation conditions of repentance, and 
faith, in unison with that in Abraham's bosom, which received 
the promise of immortal life spirit birth new creature life riches, 
for which soul life immortal all earth's riches, if possessed, a man 
would give. 

24.] And he cried. — The Jews, the parabolic rich man, when 
in Jerusalem, walled in and surrounded by the Roman army, and 
being tortured by hell's war weapons, pestilence, famine, and fire, 
torments sufficient to satisfy any mortal's revenge. The Jews 



LUKE XVI. 379 

also, in every nation whither they fled, for centuries were scourged 
by human form devils. 

25.] Abraham said, Son. — Thus acknowledging that the rich 
man told the truth in calling Abraham his father. Abraham died 
and said. Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime (was the rich 
man not then alive, and conscious ?). 22 : Rich man died ; and 
Abraham is talking to his dead son, or Jew descendant of the 
flesh, and says to the dead rich man, Thou in thy lifetime receivest 
thy good things, and Lazarus evil things ; but now he is comforted, 
and thou art tormented. How could that literally take place if 
both were dead ; and the day of judgment must have then taken 
place, to make any literal sense, by taking it as an illustration of 
a fact, instead of truthfully taking it as a figurative parable of the 
Jews and Gentiles. 

26.] Great gulf fixed. — A gulf made by breaking Abraham's 
covenant of faith which centered in Christ. The rich man 
Abraham's seed of nature could not be absorbed into the families 
of the Gentiles or poor man, as they affiliate with each other, be- 
cause another great gulf, circumcision of the foreskin, prevents the 
Gentile marriage ; aids to perpetuate their national persecution. 

27.] I pray thee, therefore, — Send him to my father's house. 
If Abraham was the rich man's father, which he acknowledges 
by calling him son, then Abraham's house, the Jews', was meant. 

28.] Five brethren. — Scribes, Pharisees, Sadducees, publicans, 
and Essen es. Five sects of the Jews. 

29.] They have Moses. — Who had Moses and the prophets at 
that time ? No one but the Jewish nation, the five brethren sects 
of the Jewish nation, the rich man. 

30.] From the dead. — Here was shadowed forth the parable 
figure of the cause of the rich man, Jewish national, death, by 
way of the rejection of the Saviour ; and if Jesus Lazarus (Matt. 
viii. 20 : The Son of man hath not where to lay his head, while 
nature animals, as foxes, have holes and places of rest) would 
arise from the dead, and proclaim salvation's narrow way of spirit 
birth life, the five brethren sects of the Jews would embrace and 
fellowship the gospel truths thus proclaimed. 

31.] He said unto him. — If they hear not Moses and the 
prophets, which they the five brethren sects of Jews had in 
their native Hebrew, and which was read, or a portion of it, 
every sabbath day to the circumcised rich man Jews only, 
poor Lazarus Gentiles, called by Jews dogs, and of which 



380 LUKE XVII. 

from Ruth, Boaz' wife, the Jewish line, the ancestors of the 
Virgin Mary, the mother of the woman's seed portion of the 
blood life body of Jesus of Bethlehem and Nazareth, whereby 
Jesus, by way of Ruth the Gentile, partook of the Lazarus Gen- 
tile seed. Luke xxiv. 47. Beginning at Jerusalem. Thus the 
gospel was first preached at Jerusalem, offering pardon in Jesus 
Lazarus' s name, by way of Abrahamic faith repentance, to the five 
brethren. 



Chapter XVII. 



2.] Little ones. — Spirit born infants of Christ's spirit love seed 
(Matt. xiii. 37, 38 ; John iii. 5 ; 2 Cor. v. 17). Gal. vi. 15 : 
New creatures. 

5.] Faith. — Full belief, trust in, and reliance implicitly, without 
a doubt, upon God. 

6.] Obey you. — The power of mind will over matter, when in 
accordance with God's will and appointments or permission, is 
here described as triumphing over nature. 

7-10.] Unprofitable servants. — The sacrifice of the blood life 
of the holy pure sinless word spirit begotten son Jesus infinitely 
outvalues all the value to God of all Adam's race of mortals. Isa. 
xl. 17 : All nations before God are as nothing (would he resur- 
rect and endlessly torment such ?_) ; and they are counted to him 
less than nothing, and vanity. 

12.] Stood afar off. — Lepers were not allowed to dwell with 
nor come near persons in health (Matt. viii. 2-4 ; Lev. xiii. 
46 ; Num. v. 2, 3). Thus sinners contaminate and often infect 
and poison Christians by communion contact and seductive animal 
nature appetites. 

14.] Shew yourselves unto the priests. — To obtain their testi- 
mony that they were really cured, and might be again admitted 
into society, cleansed and healed. 

15.] One of them. — Out of ten, healed of nature leprosy, but 
one of the ten was also healed of soul or spirit life leprosy. 

18.] This stranger. — A Gentile Lazarus, not a rich in grace 
chosen Jew ; most likely the other nine were of the rich man 
Abraham's five brethren. 

19.] Thy faith hath made thee whole. — The poor leper was 



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not only cleansed of his bodily infirmities, but his soul spirit egg 
mind was impregnated with love life immortal spirit birth that pul- 
sated love ; his new creature love life would evermore feed on spirit 
love, by way of Christ the heavenly spirit love vine that bore im- 
mortal spirit life fruits in heaven. John xv. 5 : Without me ye 
can do nothing. 

20. Demanded.— Asked.— Kingdom of God (1 Cor. xv. 28). 
God all in all, then in existence. 

21.] Within you. — All spirit born of God's seed spirit love in 
Christ Jesus. 

22.] Days of the Son, — ■After Christ Jesus should leave earth, 
in earth body of woman's seed communication with mortals, and 
resume his spirit word communications and infinite spirit life im- 
mortal attributes. 

23.] See here, or see there. — Men creeds manufactured by evil 
priests, who, by vain ceremonial theatrical mummeries and organ's 
wind, would lead vain mortals to believe they, like Gehazi, were 
in need of silver salary, and bestow only spirit delusion leprosy on 
all they lead astray, instead of bestowing free grace freely without 
money and without price (Rev. xxii. 17). Go not after men 
creeds. Follow me, said our Lord commander-in-chief of God's 
army on earth (Matt. iv. 19; viii. 22; ix. 9; Mark ii. 14; 
Luke v. 27 ; viii. 38 ; ix. 23, 59 ; John x. 27). Follow the 
Scriptures, but no vain false creeds of men here or there, the 
church, our church, or their church, — none but Christ. 

24.] Sis day. — Eternal day dawn of eternity's Son of God's 
triumphant light dawn that shall develop at once the Son of 
glory ineffable, that shall rise then in triumphant mid-day glory 
as between eternity past and eternity to come, and close of 
parenthesis creation and probation time, and destruction of the 
wicked. 

25.] Suffer many things. — Of this generation. Its nicknaming, 
slanderous defamers, insults and mockeries, perjuries and lies, and 
crown of thorns, in mockery of Christ's king of all kings power, 
and his horrid crucifixion. 

26.] As it was in the days of Noe. — Gen. vii. 1 : And the 
Lord God said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the 
ark ; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. 
Clearly showing each generation and each heavenly sphere was 
classed by itself. 23 : And every living substance was destroyed 
which was upon the face of the ground. And Noah only re- 



382 LUKE XVIII. 

mained alive, and they that were with him in the ark. So shall 
it be also in the days of the Son of man. 

28.] Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot. — Gen. xix. 
23, 24 : Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah 
brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven ; and he over- 
threw those cities and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the 
cities. Thus time will close. Matt. xiii. 40 : As therefore the 
tares (the devil's unclean spirit children) are gathered and burned 
in the fire, so shall it be in the end of this world. 49, 50 : So 
shall it be in the end of the world ; the angels shall come forth 
and sever the wicked from among the just. And shall cast them 
into the furnace of fire. 

29.] It rained fire. — The same day Lot went out of Sodom it 
rained fire and brimstone from heaven (heavenward, or sky where 
birds fly). And destroyed, to put an end to ; to annihilate a 
thing, as fire devours stubble, or chaff, or wood, or any combus- 
tible matter, and reduces them to gases and other nature elements, 
void of life (Isa. v. 24 ; Mai. iv. 1). 

33.] Save his life. — Mortals by nature's sin lust birth have but 
one life, which they lose at blood life body death ; if they are will- 
ing like the volunteer soldier to join the army of light, by way of 
spirit birth regeneration, then at blood life death they save their 
spirit birth life immortal. 

37.] Wheresoever the body is. — Wherever the unbelieving Jews 
are, there will their destroyers be upon them, as eagles upon their 
prey (Matt. xxiv. 28). 



Chapter XYIII. 



1.] Always. — Ever be in a frame of mind humble, and feel 
your constant dependence on Christ for salvation (John xv. 5 ; 
1 Pet. iii. 7). 

7.] Shall not God avenge. — Shall not God, the just judge, 
pure and holy, who tenderly cares for his saints, vindicate and de- 
liver his people from their foes temporal and spiritual. Oh how 
manifestly I have seen the rebuke of God upon those who viciously 
and wickedly through fraud and perjury robbed me of earthly 
subsistence means! 

8.] Nevertheless. — Although the Lord God is the shield and 



LUKE XVIII. 383 

sustainer of his people, when time's brief blood life probation 
draws to a close, and Christ returns as judge of all the earth, how 
few if any will he find faith in ? 

9.] Trusted in themselves. — Not in the Lord, without whose 'aid 
they could do nothing, John xv. 5 ; in their own righteousness, 
when none but the Lord can save. 

12.] Tithes. — One-tenth of their net income. 

13.] Afar off. — At the opposite side of the temple, far from the 
holy altar, smote upon his breast, showing the troublesome bur- 
den of heart pressure sin. 

18.] Eternal life. — What shall I do to become immortal ? 
Clearly the Lord proclaims that all are mortal unspirit born of God 
in Christ heaven's spirit vine, that hath a branch on earth ; blood 
life all have briefly. 

22-25.] Sell all that thou hast. — All mortals have blood life, and 
most use it to selfish ends, and to serve the world's slavery servi- 
tude to the devil in wars, dances, drunkenness and lust. Sell it 
all, and buy the pearl of spirit love immortal life ; or surrender 
in full volunteer service your blood life to the Lord ; join his 
spirit life eternal army. 

26.] Who then can be saved? — Thus impenitent sinners who 
love the ways of sin say, Where is the holy, pure, righteous child 
of God on earth, if without holiness (Heb. xii. 14), without 
which no man shall see the Lord ? Follow peace with all men, 
not war with any. God knows his spirit born children, and daily 
feeds his lambs. 

27.] Things which are impossible. — Things impossible with 
mortals, have no key to open to the power and wisdom of God, 
whose ways are infinite. Man cannot prolong his life beyond pro- 
bation's close, nor do one of the innumerable, infinite acts that God 
hath and can still do, unless God empowers him to do it as his 
servant. God in Christ only can beget immortals. 

30.] Life everlasting. — Positive and affirmative ; negative can 
be no other than eternal death, the opposite of life everlasting 
must be the portion of all unspirit born. 

32.] Delivered unto the Gentiles. — The rich man Abraham's 
nature seed heirs, the Jews, who were like their sacrifices, but 
parabolic emblems of Jesus, and Christ's spiritual kingdom by 
way of spirit birth from God's word spirit love light life immor- 
tal. Thus Jesus becomes the Lazarus Gentile that sends his spirit 
love life immortal seed by way of Abrahamic bosom faith of soul 



384 LUKE XIX. 

mind, severed by his disobedient sin lust Jew children, and united 
by way of Christ Jesus to the Gentile seeds of faith belief in 
Christ through the Abrahaniic faith promise of spirit life eternal. 

33.] Put him to death. — The woman's seed nature blood life 
that allied Jesus to Jew and Gentile, by way of Boaz and Ruth, 
received by way of the Virgin Mary, was put to death. 

34.] Understood none of these things. — Like Paul, the Jews 
were so filled with the second nature habit of believing the Jewish 
men creed doctrines. 



Chapter XIX. 



11.] The kingdom of God should immediately appear. — They 
imagined, in their worldly aspirations for worldly emoluments and 
honors, that when Christ should enter Jerusalem he would pro- 
claim himself king, deliver them from the Romans, and raise them 
to great earthly renown. To correct this idea and give them right 
views of his kingdom, spoke the following parable. 

12.] Far country. — God's spirit kingdom throne is numberless 
millions of miles distant from earth ; could mortals fly five hun- 
dred miles each hour, it would require fourteen million two hun- 
dred and fifty-five thousand four hundred and eighteen years to 
reach Cygni ; with railroad speed of twenty miles an hour, it 
would require three hundred and fifty-six million three hundred 
and eighty -five thousand four hundred and sixty-six years to reach 
the star called Cygni. Our sun is some ninety-five millions of 
miles distant from this earth, and it would take one million 
three hundred thousand worlds like ours to equal in size the sun, 
and five hundred times the size of all its planets, and thirty-eight 
suns to equal the star Lyra ; Sirius is estimated to be twenty bil- 
lions of miles from the earth. The most distant star visible to 
William Herschel's great telescope was estimated to be ten thou- 
sand billions of miles distant from this earth. Far country : mor- 
tals cannot comprehend the vastness of the distance ; yet some men 
pray very loud, as if they would send the noise through that 
boundless millions of space to address the Sovereign of the uni- 
verse ; but often I fear studied words for mortal ears. 

13.] Ten pounds. — Ten talents (Matt. xxv. 14, 30), repre- 
senting the various intellectual gifts. 



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15.] Having received. — This shows the second spiritual glori- 
fied power coming of the Saviour spirit born holy, who have the 
spirit of Christ. 

20.] Another came. — Hypocrites which have no saving faith, 
and all unspirit born. 

23.] With usury. — Luke xviii. 20. Those who sow to the 
spirit, or spirit life seed, reap love spirit peace of mind. 

26.] For I say. — Christ's words shall be given to them who 
faithfully sow to the spirit life holiness love obedience to Grod, 
more shall be given ; but from them who use them not to advan- 
tage the offer of eternal spirit life grace shall be taken away 
eternally. Life of soul spirit egg mind, which in all unspirit born, 
remains unimpregnated by spirit word life immortal (John iii. 5 ; 
v. 40 ; vi. 63 ; iv. 14, 24). Even that he hath. — Blood life, and 
soul spirit egg mind or intellect will power, shall die and end for- 
ever in death. 

27.] Slay them before me. — The ruin which befell the Jews 
by the Roman army, whose soldiers they invoked to crucify the 
body spirit begotten of woman's seed, pure, holy, and immaculate 
Jesus, and falls also upon all persevering opposers of Glod's truth 
commands in ruin and eternal death slay them, not keep them 
alive in torment fires. 

28.] Went before. — Willingly gave his nature woman's seed 
blood life a sacrifice for the sins of all his seed, willingly went to 
close the last sacrifice, which had been typified by lambs spotless 
for some four thousand years previous. 

34.] The Lord hath. — As if they had said, He, to whom all 
things created by him belong, will make use of it for a short time 
without injury. 

37.] The mighty works. — The great and transcendent divine 
miracles and works. 

38.] Peace. — 2 Thess. iii. 16: The Lord of peace himself. 
Phil. iv. 7 : Peace of Grod which passeth all understanding shall 
keep your hearts (blood life) and minds, soul spirit egg new spirit 
being or creature in Christ Jesus (2 Cor. v. 17 ; Gal. vi. 15). 
John xvi. 33 : That in me ye might have peace. In the world 
ye shall have tribulation. But be of good cheer, I have overcome 
the world. 

40.] I tell you. — My person, my doctrine, my power and actions 
are now so evident, that they cannot be hid from comprehension. 
Stones would immediately cry out. — A proverbial expression : 
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386 LUKE XX. 

nature obeys my commands, even the hard stones of the earth will 
be rent asunder, as a rebuke to the murderers of my blood life, 
the only pure nature product of Adamic woman's seed. 

41.] Wept over it. — In view of its guilt, and the miseries which 
were coming upon it. 

42.] In this thy day. — Day of consummation of sacrificial 
emblems past, and by an especial grace of God the accomplish- 
ment of his promises in me is presented unto thee. 

44.] Thy children. — The inhabitants of Jerusalem. One stone 
upon another. — Titus, their conqueror, caused the ground to be 
plowed up beneath the temple walls, to obtain most likely the 
gold that melted and ran down the walls. 

46.] My house. — The temple was called God's house, because 
God's name was called upon there and his service erected. Den 
of thieves. — As well in respect to their false men creed priestcraft 
dignity doctrine which was there corrupted, as of God's service 
which was there perverted, as it is at this day by Latin litany and 
theatrical ceremonial mummeries, and making salary and money, 
and attendance on their man-appointed meetings, conditions of 
immortal life in heaven. 

47.] He taught daily in the temple. — For a number of days 
before his crucifixion. 



Chapter XX. 



2.] Tell us. — Matt. xxi. 23, 27 : For the Jewish priests (like 
the tradition men creed preachers of this day) would not suffer 
anybody to teach without their leave and consent, even the Lord 
himself, the builder of and head of the church of God spiritual 
and immortal, nor an angel of God, nor commissioned by Christ 
Jesus the spiritual source of all immortal life partakers on earth. 

4.] The baptism. — By whose commission, or with what 
priestly self-commissioned power, did John baptize ? or was his 
commission from God only? Thus I ask to-day: The Lord Jesus 
Christ, in spirit body glorified, called me in person, and commis- 
sioned me with these Scripture truths, and the book of nature 
uncontaminated by men tradition creeds ; and by opening my 
spirit soul mind new spirit born creature in Christ Jesus, intellect 
mind understanding of spirit truths sight, — wisdom, knowledge, 



LUKE XX. 387 

understading, communion with God in Christ my spirit vine 
(John xv. 5), without whose aid I am as helpless in heavenly 
strength as an infant in nature strength and wisdom. Shall I 
obey my commander-in-chief, and write and bear his message of 
eternal truth light and gospel life immortal, or shall I obey men 
tradition preachers, and, like Jonah, fly from duty ? 

5.] If toe shall say, From heaven. — Then their high priest com- 
missioning of only their men creed traditions from the elders, or 
rabbins, would be endangered, and we could not be esteemed 
truthful without obedience to John's truths. 

6.] If we say, Of men. — If John's adherents in belief of his 
truth sayings hear us say John is only a self-appointment, or 
commissioned only by men. 

9-16.] lie shall come and destroy these husbandmen. — The 
rich man in gold, silver, and cattle, and the land of promise 
Canaan in prospective temporal and spiritual, the Jews, and give 
the vineyard to the poor man Gentiles, who by faith shall work 
the vineyard, which faith was demonstrated by Abraham's bosom 
son sacrifice. Out of the vineyard. — Jesus Christ the heir of all 
things, whose spirit word woman's seed blood pure and holy was 
shed without the city (Heb. xiii. 12). Wherefore Jesus, that he 
might sanctify his people with his own blood, suffered without the 
gate (how soon after all the Jews were driven from Jerusalem to 
suffer !). Let us go forth from men tradition false creeds unto 
Jesus without the camp, bearing his reproach. For here we have 
no continuing city ; but we seek one to come beyond the grave. 

17.] The head of the corner. — Not the base of the corner, as 
in earthly wise erections, but the head capstone of the spiritual 
temple of God on earth. But creeds of men, spirit Babels struc- 
tures, have no truth capstone. 

32.] Last of all. — The woman outlived her seven husbands on 
earth. 

33.] Resurrection. — They could not comprehend the Pharisee 
men creed of a body resurrection, made of vegetation matter, that, 
like the body, soon rotted back to nature elements; and deemed 
the resurrection of a rotten mortal body, rotten potato, pumpkin, 
or any other nature body or product, alike untruthful doctrine of 
men creeds void of truth ; and if all those seven men husbands 
of one wife should be raised with physical powers and lusts, they 
would be likely each to claim her as their wife, and a fist or other 
war fight would be a likely result, and the heaven of peace would 



388 LUKE XXI. 

be turned into a war heaven ; thus the Sadducees nature reason 
unspirit born would quite likely argue the question. 

34.] The children of this world. — Gen. ii. 7 : And the Lord 
formed man of the dust of the ground. 

35.] Worthy. — To render worthy to exalt; worthy to obtain 
resurrection life from the dead blood life corruption body of this 
world's products (Gal. iii. 28). 

36.] Children of God. — They who are accounted worthy by 
the Lord Jesus Christ, who is the only resurrection and life 
spiritual and immortal. 

37.] — Now that the dead are raised. — They are ; past tense 
(not they are to be at the close of time, or some future day. John 
xi. 25 : Jesus said, I am (not I will be at some future day) but 
now, present tense) the resurrection and the life (1 Tim. vi. 16 : 
God only hath immortal life). Christ in God only can impart 
immortal life, the negative all unworthy of resurrection life im- 
mortal must eternally remain dead when dead at blood life's pro- 
bation close (Ezek. xviii. 4). 

38.] For he is not a God of the dead. — John iv. 24 : God is a 
spirit ; and they that worship him must worship him in spirit 
and in truth. Heb. i. 7 : And of the angels God saith, who 
maketh his angels spirits (Luke xx. 36). Those worthy of a 
resurrection at blood life body death are equal to the angels who 
are spirits, and God's children. He begets them ; he is a spirit, 
and like begets its like is God's law of his universe of life light. 

47.] For a shew. — Popes with a mad-cap, triplicate stories, em- 
blem of their spirit Babel insanity in their service of the devil, 
who fills them with desire for adoration of mortals, and vain tinsel 
monkey puppet show decorations. Thus silly kings, and emperors, 
and warrior officials, and mummery ceremonial gowned preachers 
for a show change gowns, and read prayers to appear devout, but 
the salary is the secret prompter within them. 



Chapter XXI. 



8.] Take heed that ye he not deceived. — Many shall come in 
my name. Popery of Rome comes out with his infallible bull dog 
that bites himself. 



LUKE XXII. 389 

15.] For I will give you a mouth and wisdom. — All who ask 
God for wisdom through Christ's aid, if holy in love faith, receive 
wisdom, gospel true light, which all their adversaries shall not be 
able to gainsay nor resist. 

17.] All men. — Gen. ii. 7 : And the Lord God formed man of 
the dust of the ground, iii. 19 : Dust thou (Adam, man) art, 
and unto dust shalt thou return. Thus all Adam and Eve's sin 
lust begotten race are but dust poisoned by sin, and all dust bodies 
return to their mother earth ; spirit born they hate, who have the 
spirit of Christ ; the wicked love lust and sin. 

27.] Then shall they. — All saints at that period of time which 
draws near, most likely before the year 2000 of this era, see the 
Son of man coming in a cloud, with power and great glory, to 
open a new dispensation, as seemeth good unto the Lord our God. 
Amen. 

28.] Your redemption. — From the powers of evil, sickness, 
sorrow, pain, and death. 

33.] Earth shall pass aivay. — Deut. xxxii. 22 : Fire shall con- 
sume the earth (Ps. xlvi. 2). Isa. xxiv. 19 : Earth is dissolved. 
Ii. 6 : Earth shall wax old. Mai. iv. 1 ; 2 Pet. iii. 10 ; Rev. xx. 
11 : Earth fled away. 

35.] As a snare. — Unexpected the inhabitants of the earth will 
behold the Lord coming with power as judge, to destroy all the 
wicked as in a moment. Num. xvi. 21. 

36.] Pray always. — Any moment of the earthly existence of 
any mortal they may close blood life's probation. 



Chapter XXII. 



3.] Then entered Satan into Judas. — Satan was a fallen angel 
of high order, and like Adam became a rebel ; now death (Heb. 
ii. 14). 

26.] Greater. — Let him be as the younger. Matt, xviii. 3 : 
Except ye be converted, and become as little children (spirit born 
new child of God, or spirit as angels). 

30.] In my kingdom. — John xviii. 36 : My kingdom is not of 
this world. 

32.] When thou art converted. — Clearly showing that Peter was 

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390 LUKE XXII. 

not yet spirit born, and therefore not yet a child of G-od. A poor 
rock to found the church of Rome on. 

33.] I am ready. — Blood life flesh is full of boast courage, but 
helpless against Satan unaided by the Lord. John xv. 5 : With- 
out me ye can do nothing. 

36.] But now. — Hitherto I have had regard to your infirmi- 
ties, and have provided for your necessities in time of peace ; but 
now I give you warning of coming persecution from the powers 
of Satan and his wicked servants, under the name of corporal 
weapons, as parable allegories. 

38.] It is enough. — The apostles, as even at this day men creeds, 
hold to carnal weapons. Priests uphold national wars with hell 
weapons of death, some volunteer to murder their fellow-mortals, 
and teach resurrection of carnal sin lust begotten bodies, not dis- 
cerning that spiritual weapons, spiritual birth, spiritual resurrection 
is from the saints' dead bodies, not of their dead, rotten bodies, 
Christ clearly states and defines. But carnal worldly wisdom is 
ever substituted for spirit life teachings, thus worshiping the 
creature instead of the spirit Creator, and source of all holy spirit 
life. 

51.] And healed him. — Christ's power is not lessened in spirit, 
though in body among his foes, no mere man could have restrained 
Christ's power to then destroy his foes. 

53.] Daily with you. — Christ shows the freedom which he had 
to declare his Father's will, wherefore no man could hinder him 
until the appointed hour. 

62.] Wept bitterly. — Not as Esau and others for worldly honors 
or property lost, but from true contrition. 

67.] If I tell you [the truth] ye will not believe. — The servants 
of the devil are ever willing followers of evil, when led captive 
under false promises of reward, as Eve was in Eden (Gen. iii. 
4, 5). The wicked love novel lies. 

68.] If I also ash you. — For what good act of mine you thus 
malign and assault my body life, ye will not answer me, nor let me 
go. 

70.] Art thou then the Son of God? — Ye say that I am, or that 
truth I consent to ; all other things ye witness against me you know 
are false. 



LUKE XXIII. 391 



Chapter XXIII. 

2.] Forbidding. — Matt. xvii. 27 ; xxii. 21 : Render therefore 
unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and unto God the things 
which are God's, clearly showing that the Jew rich man's wit- 
nesses were of their Father the devil. (John viii. 44.) The 
devil is a liar and the father of liars. 

3.] Thou sayest it. — That I am the descendant of David by 
woman's seed birth blood life I admit. 

4.] I find no faidt in this man. — Pilate admits and witnesses 
himself that Jesus was spotless of any wrong doing. 

5.] Teaching. — That was the great trouble with the Jewish 
priests, they taught of nature wisdom traditions of men. 

7.] Herod's jurisdiction. — Who put John to death to gratify a 
miserable dancing girl's devil mother's vengeance. The same 
devil was in Herod still, who would reward a silly fool's dance, 
whose intellect was in her limbs that played the puppet-show farce 
for silly fools : and he would surrender Jesus to death, as he had 
John his forerunner, as prophesied. Thus war murderers and 
wicked devils in human form rule on earth. 

15.] No, nor yet Herod. — I have examined him before you, he 
is innocent of any crime. And Herod (the murderer of John) 
cannot with all his search find any cause for the murderous outcry 
of Jewish priests and people to crucify him. 

16.] I will therefore chastise. — Then release him after perpetra- 
ting a criminal act, as judge governor, to whip the innocent, such 
devils in human form seek official stations to show forth demon 
power. 

18-22.] No cause. — Innocent ; but Pilate to please the accusers, 
who were all perjured liars and tare seed children of the devil, 
would whip and scourge the Lamb of God, innocent of any evil. 

23.] Crucified. — With loud voices the rabble devils cry, Away 
with Jesus, crucify him. And the voices of them and the chief 
priests prevailed. 

24.] And Pilate. — Who repeatedly gave his decision that they 
had maintained no just cause of action against Jesus, that he was 
innocent of any crime or. wrong-doing whatever, still, like all unjust 
officials who pamper to the prejudices of the multitude, and mur- 
der, and scourge, and plunder the innocent. Pilate gave sentence 
that it should be as they required. 



392 LUKE XXIII. 

28.] Weep for yourselves. — Jesus saw that sorrow, war, pesti- 
lence, famine, and death awaited the inhabitants of the rich man's 
city, which soon would be their fiery furnace and hell torture. 

29.] Blessed are the barren. — The horrid hell famine in Jeru- 
salem when surrounded by the Roman army, and mothers ate their 
own infant children, and better not to have children than to have 
them exposed to such distress. 

30.] Cover us. — They would choose to be killed at once rather 
than live in such protracted misery ; yet murderers prefer the 
prison hell life to the hangman's death. But life or death awaits 
all Adam's race. 

31.] Do these things. — Murder the prince of peace, so soon 
after his gospel grace conditional peace proclamation. Coming 
years will make them still harder in heart to believe as a nation 
my gospel truths. 

34.] Forgive them. — Infinite love of God, about to leave the 
woman's seed body to nature death, cries out to his spirit life, 
Immortal Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do ; 
they are blinded by their men creed traditions of the elders, 
rabbies. If the Jewish priests had been holy, and searched the 
Scriptures, instead of men creeds, they would have known Jesus. 

39.] Save thyself and us. — Thus all the wicked rail, and ridi- 
cule truth, and worship fashion's idols, and patronize the liar 
novels, theatres, horse-trots, etc. 

40.] The other answering rebuked him. — Dost not thou fear 
God ? Matt. x. 28 : Fear not them which kill the body, but are 
not able to kill the soul ; but rather fear God, who is able to destroy 
(annihilate) both soul and body in hell (the grave). 

42.] Lord, remember me. — When thou comest into thy (spirit 
power and immortal life glorified, peaceful, holy heavenly) kingdom. 

43.] To-day. — Christ entered into his spirit power kingdom 
the instant the spirit left the sacrificial body on the cross ; and 
without water baptism, or Pharaoh immersion and his hosts, but 
with the Holy Ghost baptism (Matt. iii. 11, 16). He prepared 
the repentant thief, who witnessed truthfully to his wicked asso- 
ciate, and the murderous rabble who heard him, that Jesus had 
done nothing wrong, but that he was a sinner, then prayed the 
Lord for mercy. This prayer received an immediate answer, and 
the reprieve by the judge, Christ the Lord, and the promise, To- 
day shalt thou be with me in paradise ; not as false men creeds 
teach that dead, rotten bodies are resurrected to heaven. 1 Cor. 



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xv. 44 : It is raised a spirit body. 50 : Flesh and blood cannot 
inherit the kingdom of God. 

46.] Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit. — Willingly 
left the woman's seed spirit begotten body on the cross dead mat- 
ter ; the blood life had run out of it through the horrid, cruel 
holes in the feet and hands, made by the ruthless iron spikes, and 
the loving heart that pulsated the blood life ceased to beat when 
its life fountain ceased to flow ; and the cruel soldier's spear pierced 
the tender side of Jesus' holy body and life blood, and water 
cleansing, for souls of believers of truth, flowed out. The breath 
life of the body blood life ceased to inflate, when no more instruc- 
tion would be heeded by the wicked Jews, who followed men 
creed preachers' advice instead of the commands of the commander- 
in-chief of the army of Grod. 

47—49.] Certainly this was a righteous man. — All admitted 
Jesus to be innocent. Antichrist, the man of sin, the pope of 
Rome, holds the cross as a relic of Roman soldiers' triumph over 
Jesus, as Satan's war murderers. 

51.] Joseph. — He had united with Nicodemus and opposed the 
crucifixion of Jesus. Grod hath always witnesses of his truths 
holy. 

53.] Never man. — That all occasion might be taken from 
wicked men to ascribe the resurrection of Christ Jesus' body to 
any other, who might before have been buried in the same grave. 

54.] Preparation. — For the solemnities of the sabbath day 
which next ensued. 



Chapter XXIY. 



1-12.] The resurrection. — Matt, xxviii. 10. Two men. — 
Angels in human robes. Is not here. — Christ's body is not 
ubiquitous, to be everywhere, though it be glorified. Jesus' body 
did not rot or see corruption, as mortals' dead bodies. It was 
spirit begotten holy ; all others of Adam's race are unholy and 
vile (Phil. iii. 21). 

13.] Two of them. — Of the disciples, not of the eleven apostles. 
Furlongs. — Eight to a mile. 

16.] Their eyes were holden. — Kept from discovering who he 
was. 



394 LUKE XXIV. 

18.] Cleopas. — Supposed to be Alpheus, the father of James 
the Less, and Jude. 

21.] Redeemed Israel. — Delivered their temporal government 
from their Roman bondage (emblem of their spiritual bondage to 
Satan death) ; and raise them to great national prosperity and 
glory. 

26.] Ought not Christ. — Was it not needful, in order to fulfill 
the prophecies, that the Messiah should die in blood life ? Did 
they not clearly foretell that he would be cut off, but not for him- 
self (Dan. ix. 26) ? 

31.] Their eyes were opened. — The difficulties in the way of 
their recognizing him were removed. He vanished ; disappeared. 
Made the body of flesh and bones invisible in a moment, as after 
the resurrection ascension sight was hid in the distance cloud that 
carried the nature elements of the flesh and bones in gentle life 
showers to nature's life vegetation of which it is composed (1 Cor. 
xv. 51). 

32.] Our heart hum. — Glow with wonder and delight, as mine 
do now in writing words that come to my mind as I write, new 
from the Lord. Opened to lis the Scriptures. — Explained to us 
their meaning. 

38.] Thoughts. — Affrighted, terrified, they supposed that they 
had seen a spirit. Strange and perplexing thoughts, doubting of 
the truth. 

39.] For a spirit.— John iv. 24: God is a spirit. Matt. iii. 
16: And John saw the spirit of God descending like a dove, and 
lighting upon Jesus. Rom. viii. 9 : If the spirit of God dwell not in 
you, and if ye have not the spirit of Christ, you are none of his. 
viii. 8 : So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. A 
spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye see me have, — to convince his 
disciples by ocular demonstration of his resurrection spirit power 
to raise a dust flesh body void of blood life pulsating power and 
show. Acts xvii. 28 : In God we live, and move, and have our 
being. Out of God's life power we cannot live, move, or have a 
being is inevitably the negative. 

43.] Did eat. — Not from any necessity, or good that it did the 
bloodless body. Gen. xviii. 8 : They did eat ; thus with his 
disciples, to give them greater confirmation by divers senses of 
nature. Christ by filling the bloodless body with spirit life im- 
mortal, used it merely to satisfy and communicate. 

45.] Understanding. — He inspired and enlightened their soul's 



LUKE XXIV. 395 

mind intellects by quoting those portions of Scripture which fore- 
told his blood life death and spirit life resurrection, which they did 
not comprehend before. 

46.] To rise from the dead the third day. — Otherwise he could 
not fulfill the prophecies concerning him, prove that he was the 
Messiah to procure the salvation of his spirit begotten good seed 
to spirit life immortal. 

47.] In his name. — John xiv. 6 : Jesus saith unto him, I am 
the way, and the truth, and the life (immortal spiritual), no man 
cometh to the Father but by me. xi. 25 : Jesus said unto her, I 
am the resurrection and the life. 26 : Whosoever liveth and 
believeth in me shall never die. To all nations preach, beginning 
at Jerusalem, the dwelling-place of his murderers, who had enjoyed 
and hitherto resisted all the means of grace. In Christ's name 
preach his gospel, not creeds of men. 

48.] These things. — His life, holiness, miracles, and teachings, 
and commands. 

49.] The promise. — The Holy Ghost, which I promise you 
from my Father (John xiv. 16 ; xv. 26). In whom also consists 
the accomplishment and summary of all the promises of grace 
(Acts i. 4). Endued. — Adorned and replenished therewith, and 
likewise baptized and governed by the divine power of the Holy 
Spirit of G-od, and spirit of Christ (Rom. viii. 8, 9), without 
which you are none of his (1 Cor. xv. 23, 44, 50). 

51.] While he blessed them. — His apostles and disciples; and 
in spirit he went to heaven. 



396 JOHN I. 

JOIKClsr. 
Chapter I. 

1.] In the beginning. — Before creation of matter of the world, 
when there was neither time, nor temporal things in any form, 
during eternity past, ere time's parenthesis between eternity past 
and eternity to come. The word was with God, and the word was 
God. As an earthly father might be said to be possessed of the 
life germ of his son previous to sowing the nature Adamic life 
seed, and when the son matured to life's manhood the son could 
truthfully say that he possessed the same nature powers (if equal 
in intellect, and strength of body). That kindred ties of love, and 
all matters that were essential to the happiness of the father, were 
equally the same to the son ; that each acted in unity concert, and 
having infinite resources all things were held in common. 

2.] The same. — The Son of God before the creation of the world 
did retain himself, as it were, within the centre of his glory and 
blessedness, which he hath in common with the Father (John xvii. 
5), without producing himself by works or words. 

3.] By him. — Not only as by a joint and co-operating cause 
with the Father. Without him, he is of the Father, the same as 
one portion of the ocean is water power and quality with the other 
part of the ocean, and of the same material. The Son word par- 
takes of the spirit attributes, and acts in conjunction with the 
Father in creative union power infinite. Without him. — This seems 
to be added with reference to this world, and the sun, and its sur- 
rounding planets ; hath made them in unity of creation power 
essence, and in communion of the will, counsel, and virtue of the 
Father, who must always be acknowledged to be as the well spring, 
and beginning of everything operating in the Son, and by him. 

4.] In him. — Was immortal life seed from the Father which 
was the spirit light life, that without his aid as mediator no mortal 
could ever have attained to immortal spirit life angelic. 1 Tim. vi. 
16: Light which no man could approach unto. Life immortal, 
God the father being only immortal in the beginning, from whom 
the word Son emanated and all other immortals. 

5.] The light. — God the father's original self-existent light, 



JOHN I. 397 

being eclipsed and almost extinguished in man by sin, leaving only 
the soul's spirit egg mind dormant, and unproductive of life 
spiritual, unless impregnated by the word of God the Son, who 
brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. Man's 
inward spirit life darkness could not by nature comprehend any- 
thing thereby to salvation, and immortal spirit life ; even as the 
eye which hath not its inward light seeth nothing in the outward 
light, nor with inward light in darkness. 

6.] There was. — The divine light through the only spirit be- 
gotten Son opened a narrow way to immortal life by his spirit 
word power as proclaimed in his grace, conditional with obedience 
to its requirements of faith which worketh by love, as revealed 
in his gospel truths, whereof John the Baptist was the first 
preacher. 

7.] For a witness. — To give mortals certain knowledge of the 
coming Messiah. Of the Light. — Of Christ, the spring and author 
of this light celestial. Might believe. — Might be induced and pre- 
pared to believe God's grace gospel truth proclamation. 

9.] Lighteth. — Infuseth and preserveth in mortals some sparks 
of the first light by the gift of reason, understanding, and knowl- 
edge, hearing and sight (Rom. ii. 19). 

10.] He was. — Even from creation he hath always been present 
with the world in power, and in perpetual action, giving seed-time 
and harvest. 

11.] He came unto his own. — The Jews had been his favored 
people, rich in grace provisions, and conditional promises, and 
covenants ; all of which they broke as a nation, and priesthood 
previously ordained of God on condition. 

12.] As many. — This grace provision reached to the Gentile 
world, before poor, and destitute of Scripture light and gospel 
spiritual life food. 

13.] Not of blood. — Blood life nature sin lust Adamic seed. 
Nor of the will of man. — Man's will did not pray for the spirit birth 
gospel provisions. Of God. — By his good spirit life immortal 
seed (Matt. xiii. 37, 38 ; John iii. 5 ; vi. 63 ; Rom. viii. 8, 9). 
1 John v. 18 : begotten of God. 

14.] Word was made flesh. — Gen. iii. 15 : The woman's seed 
shall bruise thy (the devil, death) head. 

15.] Bare witness. — This is he of whom I spake, the spirit 
begotten Son of the Lord God, the only source of immortal life by 
way of spirit birth. 

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398 JOHN I. 

16.] Have all we. — Believers who participate of spirit birth 
from Christ's spirit word of God's love seed. And grace. — 
Through which saints are received into God's grace, by the grace 
and love of the Father towards Christ our mediator (Rom. v. 15 ; 
Eph. i. 6). Having established Christ head of all spirit born of 
God, he distributes to every member of his spirit vine a portion 
of his gifts, spiritual food for the new spirit creature in Christ. 

17.] For the law. — Christ alone sows immortal life seed in his 
gospel word of God, which by obedience to all God's Scripture 
law, or by his grace word sown by Christ Jesus. Moses and the 
law do indeed set down what the law of God requires of mortals 
to gain his grace and immortal life, but cannot give sinful mortals 
the power of fulfilling it. And we are equally helpless now in 
and of our own strength to combat our foes (Johnxv. 5). With- 
out Christ's aid we can do nothing successfully. Christ doth 
strengthen, shield, defend, and reward all his faithful holy children 
spirit born of his good seed of the spirit kingdom. 

18.] No man. — Man is but a dust being in a state of nature 
blood life being. Gen. ii. 7 : And the Lord God formed man of 
the dust of the ground, iii. 19: Dust thou art, and unto dust 
shalt thou return. Declared him. — God, who formerly was invisi- 
ble in his spirit life immortal ways, hath made as it were himself 
visible to his saints in Christ. 

23.] The voice. — Isa. xl. 3 : The voice that crieth in the wil- 
derness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord. 6 : Cry, All flesh is 
grass. 7: Surely the people is grass. 8: The grass with ereth, 
the flower fadeth, but the word of our God shall stand forever. 
17 : All nations are before God as nothing. 

24.] The Pharisees. — This seems to be noted to show that like 
titled D. D.'s they were not satisfied when they had done their 
message, but they must question John because he baptized, to the 
contempt, and as it were in emulation of so many religious washings 
appointed and observed by them. 

25.] Why. — By what authority dost thou bring in this new 
sacrament (the same as they question Shaw's Day Thoughts, the 
forerunner of the Lord's spirit power dispensation which draweth 
near, and unclean spirits have stirred up the people with their 
developments, to blind the churches on earth, and prejudice them 
against the Lord's spirit life birth, and spirit body resurrection life 
immortal). And what virtue can it have being administered by 
thee, who hast not so high a calling as those great persons who 



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are foretold in Scripture that they shall pour out the water of grace 
promised by the prophets ? 

26.] I baptize. — I am the ministerial forerunner of the Messiah, 
who is already come into the world though he be not manifested, 
and by his authority I do that which I do ; and upon him depends 
all the spiritual virtue, whereof I dispense nothing but the out- 
ward sign. 

27.] Coming after me. — Before whom I am sent to prepare his 
way. 

28.] Betliabara. — It is thought to be the place mentioned 
Jud. vii. 24, and it would seem there was some passage over 
Jordan there, a fording place as the Hebrew name importeth. 

29.] The Lamb. — Him whom God hath appointed to open a 
spirit door to spirit born soul minds. 

31.] I knew him not. — Not by sight before God had revealed 
him to me. 

36.'] Lamb of God. — This was spoken as alluding to the 
paschal lamb emblem. 

41.] The Messias.— The Christ. Dan. ix. 25 : Unto Messiah 
the prince (of heaven). 26 : And after sixty- two weeks shall 
Messiah be cut off, but not for himself. 

44.] Bethsaida. — A city situated near the lake of Gennesaret, 
in Galilee. 

45.] Of Nazareth. — That for a time had his ordinary abode 
there (Luke ii. 4). Moses and the prophets (Luke xxiv. 44 ; 
Gen. iii. 15 ; xlix. 10 ; Deut. xviii. 15-18 ; Isa. ix. 6, 7 ; liii. 2- 
12 ; Jer. xxiii. 6 ; Ps. xxii.). 

46.] Come and see. — Nazareth was in Gralilee, a country town, 
some of whose inhabitants were pagans in creed, and many of the 
inhabitants of Galilee were people of a low order of poor uneducated 
people. Thus the brightest diamonds are surrounded with dirt, 
and the highest intellectual gem that ever graced earth was called 
a Nazarene, though truthfully also a Bethlehemite (Matt. ii. 1 ; 
Mic. v. 2). Bethlehem, Judea (Jud. xvii. 7-13; xix. 1-18; 
Ruth i. 1-22 ; ii. 3, 4). Boaz and Ruth, Jew and Gentile, an- 
cestors of the Virgin Mary. 

47.] Israelite indeed. — A spiritual Israelite, not nature seed of 
sin lust of the rich man Jewish nationality. Ps. Ii. 5 : Behold I 
was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. 
All Adam's seed was sentenced to death. Gen. iii. 19 : Dust thou 
art, and unto dust shalt thou return. God's statute law, notwith- 



400 JOHN II. 

standing men creeds to the contrary, with their eternal life of the 
wicked in hell torments which partakes wholly of the creed of the 
devil as uttered by him to our first mother, Eve. The first preacher 
of that doctrine in Eden. Gen. iii. 4, 5, 6 : And the serpent (devil, 
death, poison of mortal's body and soul) said unto the woman (Eve), 
Ye shall not surely die. The devil first preached that the wicked 
was immortal, contradicting flatly God's law imperative statute. 
Gen. ii. 17 : Thou shalt surely die ; not eternally dying, but in the 
day that thou eatest thereof soul spirit mind death severed from 
God's spirit love. 

48.] / saw thee. — Christ's divinity origin by spirit birth was 
hereby shown, because he knew things absent as if they were 
present. Gen. iii. 15 : The promise of the Lord God, or spirit 
Son of God's word seed. In secret prayer communion with God, 
though unseen by men, we are never unobserved by Jesus Christ's 
spirit love in the spirit word Son of God, creation power and infi- 
nite attributes, imparted to him by his spirit Father, who only 
innate of himself is self-existent life immortal and the only source 
of immortal spirit life (1 Tim. vi. 16). By yielding obedience to 
Christ's commands we learn by experimental regeneration that God 
in Christ is love, by improving the light we receive at spirit birth 
from him we are prepared for higher attainments, and brighter 
manifestations of his power and glory. 

51.] Son of man. — Spirit word creation power Son of God, 
whose word spoken in Eden (Gen. iii. 15) begot spiritually Jesus 
the Son of man (spirit second Adam), from the woman's nature 
seed egg of the Virgin Mary, with the same spirit creation word 
power that he made the sun : let there be light and there was 
light. 



Chapter II. 



1.] The third day. — After the events recorded in the preceding 
chapter. Ca.na of Galilee — A town on the west side of Galilee, 
so called to distinguish it from Cana near Sidon. 

4.] What have I to do with thee? — Thou art the woman spoken 
of some four thousand years since, of whose nature Adamic man 
life egg germ seed, my man blood life, nature blood life, by spirit 
word of God power of creation was formed, but no power to make 



JOHN II. 401 

wine of water, or any other power to create or transform was de- 
rived from thee ; and there is no time appointed for a display of 
the spirit word creation power at thy command, who art but 
mortal woman. What have I in spirit power in common with dust 
Adamic nature? shall dust command, or call upon God's spirit 
creation power to obey ? 

5.] Do it. — Mary had faith, and in answer to her faith spirit 
life love Jesus complied with her request. 

6.] Six water-pots of stone. — It was the custom of the Jews 
to have such vessels for water, for purposes of purification. 

8.] Governor of the feast. — The officiating person who had the 
general supervision of the feast as ruler. 

9.] Water that was made wine. — That which was drawn out 
was made wine ; we are not told whether that remaining was made 
into wine, but most likely all in the vessels was the same. And 
in the sacraments water would be far better than drugs and bad 
liquors colored to resemble wine, if not by faith better to be used 
than wine referring to this miracle. 

10.] Good wine. — Pure juice of the grape, unadulterated, un- 
fermented. 

11.] His glory. — His divine power and love. Believed. — Were 
confirmed in faith, which was as yet feeble in them, animal nature 
predominating in them, and being thereby blinded as to-day, 
adhering to the carnal nature body blood life, and its resurrec- 
tion of body, flesh, and blood : instead of spirit birth of spirit 
life immortal seed of God's infinite love, in his spirit word Son, 
which was manifested to mortals in the spirit begotten redemption 
body sacrifice holy Jesus of Bethlehem and Nazareth, which was 
the only possible redemption from the death sentence pronounced 
against Adam and his offspring, by the way soul spirit egg mind 
impregnation by God's spirit word promise that the seed of the 
woman Eve, who had first broken God's law command, should bruise 
the serpent's head (Gen. iii. 15). Heb. ii. 14 : Thereby to destroy 
the death executioner the devil. 

17.] Remembered. — Ps. Ixix. 9 : The reproaches of them that 
reproach thee are fallen upon me. 

18.] What sign. — What miracle dost thou work in proof of 
thy authority to do these things, as at this day? where is thy 
parchment commission from men in sectarian creeds of men offi- 
cials ? Though it was not a requisite law that governed God's pro- 
phets (John x. 41) ; John did no miracle. 

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402 JOHN III. 

19.] Three days. — He refers them to his resurrection and glori- 
fication. 

20.] Forty and six years. — The same misapplication of his words 
they made, when they accused him before Pilate. 

22.] Tlie Scripture. — Those passages which foretold his blood 
life body of woman's seed death, and spirit life immortal. 

24.] Did not commit himself unto them. — Did not trust his 
woman's seed nature body in their power, knowing their hypoc- 
risy, and man's fallen nature. 

25.] He knew what was in man. — He knew all carnal, unspirit 
born unholy mortals on earth were by nature sin lust birth 
servants of the devil. 



Chapter III. 



1.] A ruler. — A member of the Sanhedrim, or great Jewish 
council. 

2.] By night. — For fear of persecution by the Jews (John vii. 
13 ; ix. 22 ; xii. 42 ; xix. 38). Knowing how the Jewish priests 
and men creed officials and office-holders hated Christ Jesus. Ex- 
cept God. — He acknowledged Jesus to be a great prophet sent 
from Grod. 

3.] Except a man be born again. — 5 : Except a man be born 
of water and of the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of 
Grod. Earth is the kingdom of death, where the devil death 
prince of darkness holds most of Adam's race as abject slaves to 
his false teachings and lusts and vicious sin appetites. 

4.] How can a man be born when. — Nicodemus, like all blind 
men creeds, cling to carnal nature birth. G-al. iii. 26 : For ye 
(spirit born holy) are all the children of Grod by faith in Jesus 
Christ. 28 : There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither 
bond nor free, there is neither male nor female : for ye are all one 
(in like new creature spirit bodies, void of sexual appendages, or 
nature bodies with animal lust desires, corruption and death : im- 
mortal life is all from God the father of spirits holy). Heb. xii. 
9 : Spirit beings. 

5.] Jesus answered, Verily, verily [In truth and perfect cer- 
tainty], I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of 
the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. — 1 Pet. i. 



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23 : Being born again not of corruptible (sin lust nature Adamic) 
seed, but of incorruptible. By the word of God (John vi. 63 : 
It is the spirit that quickeneth (maketh alive), the flesh profiteth 
nothing : the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and 
they are life), which liveth and abideth forever. John i. 13 ; 
Which were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor 
of the will of man, but of God. iv. 24 : God is a spirit. 1 John 
iii. 9 : Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin : for his 
seed remaineth in him : and he cannot sin, because he is born of 
God. 10 : In this the children of God are manifest, and the 
children of the devil. Heb. xii. 9 : Father of spirit life (1 John 
iv. 16 ; v. 18). And without controversy great is the mystery of 
godliness : God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the spirit, 
seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the 
world, received up into glory. 1 Tim. vi. 16: Who only hath im- 
mortality, dwelling in the light which no man (flesh mortal blood 
life being) can approach unto. 2 Tim. i. 10: But is now made 
manifest in the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath 
abolished death (of souls who accept salvation by spirit birth from 
his spirit love seed), and brought life (spiritual) and immortality 
to light through the gospel. John v. 40 : And ye will not come to 
me, that ye might have life (spiritual immortal). Horn. ix. 8 : 
They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children 
of God. John iii. 6 : That which is born of the flesh is flesh, 
and that which is born of the spirit is spirit. Gal. vi. 7, 8 : Be 
not deceived: God is not mocked (by being the resurrector of 
sin lust begotten rotten bodies) : for whatsoever a man soweth, 
that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of 
the flesh reap corruption (rottenness) ; but he that soweth to the 
spirit shall of the spirit reap life everlasting. 

7.] Marvel not that I [Jesus] said unto thee [Nicodemus], Ye 
must be born again. — John i. 12, 13 : As many as received Christ 
Jesus, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to 
them that believe on his name : which were born not of blood, 
but of God. 

9.] How can these things be? — Nicodemus' mind was all blinded 
by nature birth and Pharisee creed body resurrection. Jesus 
answered him in the fifteenth verse, That whosoever believeth in 
Christ should not perish (as all unspirit born must in death of 
body and soul), but have everlasting life. 

10.] Jesus answered. — They have been clearly set forth by the 



404 JOHN III. 

prophets, and you a master teacher among the Jews know not the 
prophets' teachings. 

11.] We speak. — I and my disciples do teach doctrines that are 
certain truth, and are not human invention imaginary myths as 
your men creed traditions are, or utterly false. 

12.] Earthly things. — Things which take place on earth, such 
as being born of the spirit, the evidences of which are obvious to 
the senses of feeling and wisdom of all spirit born of God's spirit 
love seed sown by Christ. Heavenly tilings. — Things less plain, 
relating to God, Christ, heaven, and eternity. 

13.] No man. — No man of himself, or by the teachings of 
worldly wisdom of earth's professors of wisdom, or philosophers 
who are wise in self-conceited myths. But I give you ocular 
demonstrations of heavenly truths. 

14.] Moses lifted up the serpent. — Num. xxi. 8, 9. Be lifted 
up. — On the cross, to fulfill by ocular demonstration what the 
prophets of God had proclaimed, and what had for some four 
thousand years been typified by sacrifices as a propitiation for the 
sins of believers in his truth proclamation of grace, on conditions 
of obedience to his commands. 

15.] Believeth. — John xi. 25 : Jesus saith unto her, I am the 
resurrection and the life. 

16.] Gave his only begotten Son. — The highest expression of his 
infinite compassion and love. Whosoever of all Adam's or Noah's 
race, without respect of person, or country, sect, or age, but an 
especial promise is to young early seekers after truth, before vile 
nature's vicious sin habits have poisoned the soul's mind intellect. 

17.] Might be saved. — On compliance with the terms of salva- 
tion. 

18.] Not condemned. — All true believers are spirit born, and 
have the spirit love of Christ and are holy, and are thereby im- 
mortal. John xi. 25, 26 : Whosoever liveth (soul's spirit born, 
and living children of God) and believeth (by way of spirit love 
light holy belief) in me, shall never die. I am the resurrection 
and the life. He that believeth not is condemned already, because 
he hath not believed in the name of the only (spirit love) begotten 
Son of God. Thus showing the judgment day is now; the sinners 
are condemned, and the repentant sinners pardoned daily each reap 
life, or death, of body and soul (Ezek. xviii. 4). 

19.] And this is the condemnation. — Cause of condemnation. 
Light is come. — Spirit life immortal through grace of God pro- 



JOHN III. 405 

claimed in the Scriptures, and experienced by thousands of wit- 
nesses who are spirit born of God's love seed life immortal. And 
men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were 
evil. 

20.] — For every one that doeth evil hateth the light. — The incor- 
rigibly wicked hated Jesus and crucified him, and hate the reproofs 
of his children now. 

21.] But he that doeth truth. — Preaches the Bible truths and 
discards all men creeds that accord not with revealed truth and 
love that God approves of, as clearly stated in his revealed statute 
laws. 

26.] They came. — John's disciples of water baptism, moved 
by jealousy, not by love which all spirit born baptized with the 
Holy Ghost by the Saviour are, and all such are glad to hear of 
genuine love birth spirit born holy conversion ; whoever may 
proclaim God's grace proclamation truthfully, as revealed in the 
Scriptures. All men come to him. — All kinds of creeds that 
repented of evil deeds. 

27.] A man. — I am no more, and no other man can be more, 
than God would make him ; he hath made me a servant, and 
therefore both you and I ought to content ourselves with our 
degree and measure, and yield the sovereign honor to the Lord, 
which is Christ ; or, I have received what light of spirit life im- 
mortal I have by God's gift, there is no cause of self-glory for me 
nor of ambition for you (1 Cor. iv. 7). 

28.] Ye yourselves. — John reproves his disciples because they 
believed not what he had told them, that he was but the voice 
proclaiming Christ's coming. 

29.] Friend of the bridegroom. — One who acts for him, and 
rejoices to see him honored. 

30.] He. — Christ must increase in influence and honor over 
the earth until his final triumphant overthrow of all who obey the 
prince of darkness and him also (Heb. ii. 14 ; 1 Cor. xv. 26). 

31.] Above all. — He proclaims Christ the king of saints, and 
commander-in-chief of his army of holiness spirit born love light 
immortals, who are invincible while they obey his commands, and 
abide in his love. 

32.] No man. — Few in comparison to the whole, and none 
uninfluenced by the Holy Ghost in unison with Christ's love, 
that like light would illuminate dark minds. 

33.] Hath set to his seal. — By believing in Christ and receiving 



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his spirit love life immortal seed into his soul mind, he by spirit 
birth love knows of a truth experimentally that what God hath 
said concerning Christ is truth. 

35.] Given all things. — Pertaining to the salvation of spirit 
born holy believers of his gospel truths, and fulfillment of prophe- 
cies of his prophets. Into his hand. — As mediator, that he might 
give eternal life spiritual to all who accept of his proffered grace 
mercy mediation and spirit birth love seed from his Father, 
sovereign of the universe. 

36.] He that helieveth. — Acts in accordance with their soul 
mind belief, and receives spirit birth love life immortal. He that 
helieveth not. — The truth of God in his Son's gospel truth procla- 
mation, gives it no attention, and when blood life closes, shall not 
see life spiritual immortal. But the wrath of God (the judgment 
passed on Adam abides on all his race who are of the earth carnal 
and earthy) abideth on him. Gen. iii. 19 : Dust thou art, and 
unto (death) dust shalt thou return. Abideth on him ; no resur- 
rection life can reach him. 



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2.] Baptized not. — Jesus' baptism was a spirit life baptism, not 
body blood life repentance baptism. Matt. iii. 11:1 indeed bap- 
tize you with water unto repentance ; but he that cometh after 
me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear. He 
shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire. 

4.] Samaria. — Lying between Judea and Galilee. 

5.] Sychar. — Previously called Sychem, and now Nablous, and 
lies south of Samaria, between the mountains Ebal and Gerizim. 

9.] No dealings with the Samaritans. — Some apostate Jews 
had there established a false worship to imitate that of Jerusalem, 
wherefore they were displeasing to each other and held no friendly 
dealings." 

10.] Living water. — Rev. xxii. 17 : Whosoever will, let him 
partake of the water of life freely. Spirit life immortal drink that 
expandeth eternally and overflows to God the father of all spirits 
immortal, is spirit love, and to all that are spirit born of God, 



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and to our neighbors as unto ourselves. No supreme miserly 
selfishness can inhabit with Christ's spirit love living water, pure 
spirit love. 

11.] Whence then. — Her nature mind thought only of spring 
or well water. 

14.] The water that I shall give him. — Spirit love from God, 
who only hath immortality. God is love, and they that are spirit 
born holy drink of his living water of life through Christ the spirit 
vine, and pulsate in new creature life spirit love that never dries 
up, but ever grows by expansion and overflows with love. 

15.] Neither come hither to draw. — Her dark carnal nature 
mind could not comprehend spirit birth new creature life, nor its 
drink. 1 Cor. x. 4 : They drank of that spiritual rock that followed 
them, and that rock was Christ (not Peter). 

20.] This mountain. — Mount Gerizim. As she perceived him 
to be a prophet, she desired to have him decide the question of 
dispute between the Samaritans and the Jerusalem Jews, as to 
which place was the right place of worship. 

21.] The hour cometh. — The time is near when in every place 
on earth suitable for holy worship of God in spirit and in truth, 
in your secret devotions, but in this mountain or Jerusalem the 
true spiritual worshipers shall not assemble in your synagogues. 

22.] Of the Jews. — They had greater light as to divine worship, 
and from them in part was the Messiah's woman's seed nature in 
the flesh and blood sacrificial body of the holy Jesus. 

23.] True worshipers. — God is a spirit, God is love, God is 
holiness spirit. Truthful worshipers of God are those of his family 
and kindred spirit, they worship the Father of all spirit life im- 
mortal in spirit and in truth ; such the Father of spirits begets by 
his spirit word creation power infinite spirit love Son's good seed 
sown in the only germinating spirit eggs on earth, the soul's in- 
tellect spirit egg mind. Ezek. xiv. 14, 20 : Though Noah, Daniel, 
and Job were in it, as I live, saith the Lord God, they shall de- 
liver neither son nor daughter ; they shall deliver but their own 
souls (not bodies) by their righteousness, xviii. 4 : The soul that 
sinneth it shall die. Acts ii. 41 : The same day there were added 
unto them about three thoasand souls. James i. 21 : Wherefore 
lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive 
with meekness the engrafted word (spirit of Christ, love of God, 
impregnation of soul), which is able to save your souls. 1 Pet. iv. 
19 : Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of Gud 



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commit the keeping of their souls (not bodies) to him in well 
doing, as unto a faithful creator. Isa. liv. 5 : For thy maker is 
thine husband ; of the her soul (Ps. xxxiv. 2). 

24.] God is a Spirit. — And they that worship him must (if 
they worship him) worship him in spirit, and in truth. Spirit 
powers of the mind, distinct from the body. The souls of mor- 
tals, the intelligent immaterial spirit, she, that by impregnation 
of God's immortal life spirit love brings forth the new creature in 
Christ Jesus love spirit (2 Cor. v. 17). G-al. vi. 15 : New creature. 
Ps. xxxiv. 2 : My soul shall make her boast in the Lord, the 
humble shall hear thereof and be glad. 3 : magnify the Lord 
with me, and let us exalt his name together. 

26.] / that speak unto thee am he — This was the first time Jesus 
had openly and explicitly declared himself to be the Christ. 

3-4.] My meat. — The Messiah's essential spirit word of God. 
His spirit Father did not receive any nourishment from the 
woman's seed blood life which sustained only the flesh body of 
nature that fed on nature products that composed it. John iii. 
6 : That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is 
born of the spirit is spirit. Two distinct separate beings ; the flesh 
mortal, the spirit holy and immortal that fed only on spirit food 
immortal love. 

38.] Other men. — The prophets ; herein is declared the differ- 
ence between the ministry of the law, and the gospel spirit birth 
spirit life immortal dispensation of Christ, its holy high priest. 

39.] Believed on him. — Showed themselves willing to learn, 
and be obedient to his doctrine of spirit birth, and spirit love's 
expansion overflowing as doth a living well spring fountain. 

41.] Many more believed. — This was the harvest of which 
Jesus had spoken. 

42.] And know. — By experimental spirit birth love, which 
accompanied Christ's words. John vi. 63 : The words that I 
speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. Of the world. — 
Saviour of believing Jews and Gentiles. 

43.] Into Galilee. — Cana, not into Nazareth (Luke iv. 24), 
where they would thrust him out of his own city for telling them 
truthfully how to obtain spirit birth love life immortal after blood 
life's death. 

44.] Jesus himself testified. — Witnessed that a prophet hath no 
honor in his own country. Familiarity of good persons with evil 
beings who by nature are dead to spirit life immortal, and incapa- 



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ble of appreciating spirit birth life, malign and discredit their 
neighbor, whom they knew only as a blood life flesh body mortal 
like themselves. 

48.] Except ye see signs. — Unless by miracles he showed that 
he was the Messiah they would not believe him, being blinded by 
men creeds that taught of flesh body resurrections, and many con- 
tradictions of Scripture truths, and wholly void of heavenly spirit 
birth love life eternal. 

50.] Thy son liveth. — The nature blood life is wholly dependent 
on God's mercy, that spares mortals in life that they may repent 
until probation their appointed time closes ; and God can if he sees 
it best for the mortal prolong in answer to prayer mortal blood 
life pulsations. The same word of God power that spake, Thy son 
liveth, giveth to souls quickening spirit life in answer to heart felt 
prayers, and when at the altar of prayer the soul is spirit born, 
saved from death (Ezek. xviii. 4), then they can truthfully who 
know the fact, thy son, or thy daughter liveth. Lord please help 
me develop my spirit birth love life from thee. 

54.] The second miracle. — The second he had wrought at Cana, 
first water into wine. 



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2.] Bctliesda. — House of mercy. Many at the pool, into which 
the water of Gihon came by pipes under ground, had been merci- 
fully healed of their diseases. 

9.] Immediately. — The sick man was restored by Jesus' word 
command, when obeyed thus soul's mind is spirit born. 

14.] Sin no more. — Showing that sin often is punished here on 
earth by disease. Sin no more lest a worse thing come upon thee, 
punished here, not hereafter. 

21.] The Son quickeneth. — Giveth life to whom he will in 
unison with, and in obedience to, God his Father's will, who only 
hath immortal life of himself to bestow, and hath commissioned 
his Son to offer grace pardons conditional proclamation of spirit 
love birth life immortal. 

22.] Father judgeth no man. — The spirit word, spirit Son of 
God Almighty, the Lord God of creation word power, that made 
man, judgeth him by his word commands, if disobeyed, all nature 



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inanimate obeys his commands. But sin lust begotten beings of 
Adam, not spirit begotten in soul, disobey his commands. Rom. 
yiii. 5 : For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of 
the flesh ; but they that are after the spirit (begotten of God's 
spirit word spirit love, are obedient to his spirit word commands) 
the things of the spirit. 24: Is passed from death unto life. 

25.] Noio is. — The hour of resurrection from the dead soul 
mind, the new creature spirit life being, immortal by way of spirit 
birth (Matt. xiii. 37-40). John iii. 5 : Spirit birth, vi. 63 : It 
is the spirit that quickeneth ; the flesh profiteth nothing.- The 
words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. 
Eph. ii. 1 : And you hath he quickened, who were dead in tres- 
passes and in sins (Col. ii. 13). 

27. j To execute judgment. — To rule and govern, as king of 
saints, and judge of all the earth, by his word commands laws, as 
commander-in-chief. Because he is. — By spirit birth the highest 
order of the woman's seed. 

28.] All that are in the graves. — All what, and in what graves, 
shall hear? Graves, any place where the dead are deposited. 
25 : The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead, in trespasses 
and in sins (Eph. ii. 1). Col. ii. 13: And you being dead, in 
your sins, hath he quickened. Spiritually dead, the soul powers 
are triumphed over by the blood life heart will lust sin flesh appe- 
tites and desires ; and the mind spirit egg is unimpregnated with 
spirit love life immortal seed, life immortal resurrection power. 
John xi. 25, 26 : I am (not I will be, the last day of time ; but 
now present tense the hour is now. 25 : I am) the resurrection 
and the life. All the elect that are in the graves of dead works, 
of trespasses and sins, shall hear his voice ; the gospel truth 
promises of conditional salvation, which if they obey their souls 
shall live. Ezek. xviii. 27 : When the wicked man turneth away 
from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which 
is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive. Col. iii. 1 : If ye 
be risen with Christ. 

29.] And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the 
resurrection of life. — John xi. 25 : Jesus saith unto her, I am the 
resurrection and the life : he that believeth in me, though he were 
dead, yet shall he live. 26 : And whosoever liveth and believeth 
in me shall never die (immortal spirit life of spirit born, John iii. 
5), and they that have done evil unto the resurrection of (rotten- 
ness). Damnation — Damn, to condemn, to decide to be bad. 



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Matt. xiii. 47, 48 : Cast the bad away. Ezck. xviii. 4 : The soul 
that sinneth, it shall die. Isa. v. 24 : Therefore as the fire devoureth 
the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff (Mai. iv. 1 ; Matt. 
iii. 12), so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom 
shall go up as dust : because they have cast away the law of the 
Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. 

BO.] / can of mine own self do nothing. — The woman's seed 
blood life body of Jesus, unaided by the spirit word creation 
power. 

32.] There is another. — God the Father, who hath borne me 
witness from heaven (Matt. iii. 17). And I know. — I do con- 
descend unto, and am content with this witness. And you should 
be convinced thereby were you not full of malice and obstinacy. 

34.] / receive not. — I do not take testimony from men, as do 
earthly judges ; I have no need of it ; I am the upholder and sus- 
tainer of truth, and make use of it for your salvation ; to whom 
John the Baptist's ministry hath been more evident than mine, 
though both are in unison with truth. 

35.] Shining light. — 2 Pet. i. 19 : We have also a more sure 
word of prophecy. Were willing. — You took pleasure in John's 
doctrine and were touched by it, but without any firm root of faith 
(Matt. xiii. 20). 

36.] The works. — The miracles, some of which he had already 
wrought. 

37.] Hath borne witness. — By the prophets, and voice from 
heaven (Matt. iii. 7). Ye have neither. — It is no marvel that my 
father's witness is of so little esteem and weight among you, for 
his word is as unknown and obscure as his glorious grace provisions 
for your salvation, which you reject to your own ruin. 

38.] Ye have not. — Ye have no light, nor experimental spirit 
birth knowledge, nor faith that worketh by love in God's Scripture 
truths ; wherefore, like blind men, you cannot discern the light 
of God's witnessing, that God's spirit word creation power Son's 
word of promise is fulfilling by his only spirit begotten Son in the 
universe, who is the spirit ark of salvation to all spirit born holy, 
spirit born of God's spirit word love sown by Christ the only spirit 
medium mediator, who sows the spirit reconciliation spirit love 
seed in the souls of believers of his truths. 

39.] Search the Scriptures. — Not men creed theology, popery, 
paganism, or rabbi traditions of the elders. You Jews boast of 
having Moses and the prophets, and being the rich man's sons, 



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rich in silver, gold, and cattle, and land of Canaan promise, but 
did you peruse the Hebrew Scriptures as carefully as you do the 
talmuds, you would receive me, because the Scriptures bear wit- 
ness of me. 

40.] And ye will not come to me ) that ye might have life. — 
Jjev. xvii. 11 : For the life of the flesh is in the blood, xviii. 
21-24 : Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things, for in all 
these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you. 25 : 
And the land is defiled, therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof 
upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her (the land, a female 
producer of the bodies sustenance. Gen. i. 11 : And God said, 
Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed. ii. 7 : 
And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, earth). 
Vomiteth out her inhabitants, iii. 19 : In the sweat of thy face 
shalt thou eat bread till thou return unto the ground, for out of it 
(her) wast thou taken ; for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou 
return. Eccles. xii. 7 : Then shall the dust return to earth as it 
was. John iii. 31 : He that is of the earth is earthy. 1 Cor. 
xv. 47 : The first man (Adam) is of the earth, earthy. Gen. vii. 
23 : Every living substance was destroyed which was upon the 
face of the earth. Rev. xiv. 3 : Redeemed from the earth. Ps. 
cxlvi. 4 : His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth, in 
that very day his thoughts perish, xxxiv. 2 : Her soul. 

41.] I receive not honor from men. — It was not his object to 
obtain human applause from dying mortals of dust, but the approval 
of his spirit Father and holy angels of love. 

42.] Have not the love of God. — This was the reason why 
they would not embrace him as the Messiah ; they preferred offi- 
cial station and men creeds. 

43.] In my Father's name. — Spirit word creation son power of 
Almighty Jehovah God, supreme sovereign of the universe ; the 
Lord God. 

44.] Receive honor one of another. — Titled officials, rabbis, 
high priests, and now pope, cardinal, bishop, professor, D.D., and 
all the varied official appellations of men honors, soap bubbles of 
worldly applause of poor frail human mortals, and seek not the 
obedience to God's command as regards such titles, and his appro- 
val of, Well done, good and faithful servant, when blood life's 
panoramic dream is past as a vapor, and then receive a welcome 
escort, of angels to the spirit joys of immortal life. 

45.] Do not think that I. — He did not come to condemn them, 



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and had no desire to do it. Moses. — He had foretold, Deut. xviii. 
15-19, the coming of the Messiah, and the condemnation of those 
who should reject him. 

47.] How shall ye believe my words. — If you will not believe 
Moses and the prophets of God, the Scriptures which your ances- 
tors held as a sacred legacy of truth. Thus with Shaw's Day 
Thoughts, all not scriptural, if any, I discard ; if scriptural, as I 
desire them all to be, and I pray the Lord to give me a warm spirit 
life immortal light wisdom, and guidance, and bless them to all 
preachers and people on earth. Those who will not believe God's 
Bible Scripture truths I do not have hopes of doing them much 
good, but hope they may see. You reply, It is nothing new to you 
that I write ; it is only the Bible truths, that we have read and 
learned in Sunday schools ; thus blindly said the Jews, and re- 
jected Christ. 



Chapter VI. 



1.] Over the sea. — But more properly called lake Gennesaret ; 
on the east side of it lies Tiberias, thus giving that part or arm of 
the waters the name sea of Tiberias. 

2-14.] Five thousand fed.— Matt. xiv. 13-21 ; Mark vi. 32- 
44 ; Luke ix. 10-17. The grandest miracles, showing forth the 
whole process of nature's expansion life products. 

14.] That prophet. — Deut. xviii. 18-22 : The Messiah gave 
ocular demonstration of his being that prophet by the expansion 
of the loaves through his blessing and will distribution. And 
likewise of the fishes. 

15.] Make him a king. — A temporal sovereign ; such as they 
expected their Messiah would be. 

19.] Five and twenty or thirty furlongs. — Between three and 
four miles. 

20.] It is I; be not afraid. — While I have a conscious exist- 
ence, never can I forget my vision of the Saviour ; his beauty was 
above all power of mortal pens to describe. 

21.] Immediately. — The Lord Jesus, by miracle having stopped 
the contrary wind, caused the vessel to move swiftly to their land- 
ing place. 

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22.] When the people. — Found Jesus had crossed over the 
water without the use of a vessel, part of the way, their curiosity 
was excited, not their soul life's danger, they were as void of love's 
spirit wisdom sight as the poor volunteer soldier who perils his 
own life, and seeks to destroy the life of his fellow-being, often 
for mere political party strife, for official predominancy, to rule 
over their fellow-beings on earth. 

26.] Not because ye saw the miracles. — The display of God's 
miraculous power over nature food, as over the expansion increase 
of the earth's seed products, which is a yearly succession of mira- 
culous continued expansion of nature life food from the mother 
earth in obedience to God's spirit word power (Gen. i. 11), which 
same power, in soul mind faith that worketh by love, impregnates 
the new spirit born with love life immortal expansions. Nature 
appetites of blood life bodies and mere curiosity excited drew the 
people to seek Jesus again. 

27.] Labor not. — Solely or principally for temporal blood life 
food, your body will rot back to nature elements of earth ; it is 
perishable. But labor for spiritual love life's spirit birth, that is 
obtainable only of God the Father of all spirit love beings im-„ 
mortal, through the spirit truth grace, gospel words of God's 
infinite spirit love light life, which is not a product of earth, nor 
obtainable of mortal man creeds, or powers of earth, but through 
Christ the medium of spirit birth, and spirit food for spirit born 
holy. 

28.] What shall we do? — Search the Scriptures to learn what 
the Lord says. 

29.] Believe on him whom he hath sent. — Believe his words 
of eternal truth. The words that I speak unto you, they are 
spirit, and they are life. 

33.] The bread of God. — The spirit life of the soul mind 
when received through the heart blood life will consent as truth, 
impregnates the intellect spirit mind soul egg, and produces a new 
spirit love soul creature, of spirit life immortal. 

35.] Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life. — The door. 
John x. 9 : By me if any man enter in, he shall be saved. No 
other door to heaven's spirit life immortal. 

45.] In the prophets. — Isa. liv. 13 : And all thy children shall 
be taught of the Lord ; and great shall be the peace of thy chil- 
dren. 17 : No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper ; 
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sbalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, 
and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord. 

46.] Seen the Father. — 1 Tim. vi. 16 : God only hath immor- 
tality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto ; 
whom no man hath seen, nor can see : to whom be honor and 
power everlasting. Amen. 

49.] Did eat manna. — He spoke according to the capacity of 
the hearers, who looked no further than upon corporal food. Are 
dead. — . Which would not have been the case if they had been 
spirit born holy children of God, and fed on heavenly spirit love 
of God in me : I am the resurrection life spirit word son creation 
power of God. No spirit born holy children of God can ever die 
(John xi. 26). Whereby it appears that manna food, though it 
came out of the air, and was purer than any earthly produced 
food ; yet it was corruptible in itself, and therefore could not keep 
soul or body blood life from death and corruption rottenness. Isa. 
v. 24 : Their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall 
go up as dust ; because they have cast away the law of the Lord 
of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. 

50.] Not die. — Spirit love infinite cannot die. John iii. 16 : God 
so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son that whoso- 
ever believeth on him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 
All who believe truthfully are spirit born of his spirit love seed. 
(5.) 1 John iv. 8 : He that loveth not, knoweth not God; for God 
is love. 12 : If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and love 
is perfected in us. 13 : Hereby know we that we dwell in him, 
and he in us, because he hath given us of his spirit. Love. 15 : 
Whoso confesseth Jesus is the Son of God; God dwelleth in him, 
and he in God. Love. v. 12 : He that hath the Son (spirit love 
birth) hath life ; and he that hath not the Son hath not life. 
(Where can the dead wicked get life from, man creed wor- 
shipper (John v. 40) ? They will not come to Christ for it.) 1 
John v. 18: We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth 
not ; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and the wicked 
one toucheth him not. 

51.] Living. — Immortal life love of infinite infallible power. 

54.] Whoso eateth my Jlesh, and drinketh my [spirit life im- 
mortal love] blood, hath eternal life ; and I will raise him up [no 
others but spirit born holy] at the last day. — Of blood life, or at 
death of the body. 

55.] Meat indeed, drinh indeed. — I am the giver and sustainer 



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of endless spiritual life in all spirit born holy that pulsate spirit 
love. 

56.] Dwelleth in me. — 1 John iv. 15 : Whosoever shall con- 
fess that Jesus is the Son of God God dwelleth in him, and he in 
God. 13 : Hereby we know that we dwell in him, and he in us, 
because he hath given us of his spirit. 7 : Beloved, let us love 
one another : for love is of God ; and every one that loveth is born 
of God, and knoweth God. 8 : He that loveth not, knoweth not 
God ; for God is love. 9 : In this was manifested the love of God 
toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the 
world, that we might live through him. 10, 11, 16 : God is love ; 
and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. 

57-.] As the living Father hath sent me, and 1 live by [through 
his immortal life light love spirit imparted to me] the Father, so 
he that eateth me [my spirit life immortal words of love spirit 
truth are received and eaten by the soul mind, when believed 
truthfully, which imparteth love's quickening life immortal], even 
he shall live by me. — By way of my atonement and God's love 
grace seed sown by me, which through its soul mind impregnation 
produces a new creature that pulsates immortal life love of God 
holy, while they abide in love from me, obedient to my commands 
found in Scripture gospel truths. A new spirit being. 

58.] Down from heaven. — Sent from the Father out of heaven 
pure holy love life spiritual immortal. Not as your fathers (Jews 
in the wilderness that sinned) did eat manna (air dewbread), and 
are dead. (Does not Christ know the truth better than popery 
inquisition vile false men creeds that clings to flesh nature 
bodies, and that the wicked are immortal in life in hell fire tor- 
tures of misery ?) He that eateth of this (spirit love of God in 
Christ immortal spirit life) bread (spirit love manna) shall live 
forever. The Jews' manna bread did not save their bodies or souls 
from death. 

60.] His disciples. — Disciples is here used in a general sense, 
for those who attended on his teachings, who can hear it. The 
same nature blindness and carnal constructions of Christ's spirit 
love words that Nicodemus used when told that he must be born 
again, that no nature carnal life flesh blood life mortals in nature 
habiliments perishable in corruption, no dust mortals, could enter 
into God's spirit love life immortal spirit kingdom ; that none but 
spirit born, begot of God's spirit love infinite and immortal life, 
could enter spirit life's immortal kingdom of God (John iii. 4, 



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5). Nicodemus construes Christ's words carnally, as did the 
hearers in the synagogue at Capernaum. 

63.] It is the spirit that quickeneth. — It was the spiritual, not 
the literal meaning of his words which would profit them if obeyed. 
T he flesh profiteth nothing. — John iii. 6 : That which is born of 
the flesh is flesh. Gen. ii. 7 s And the Lord formed man of the 
dust of the ground. 17 : In the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt 
surely die. 24: And they (man and wife) shall be one flesh. 
iii. 4 : And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely 
die. 19 : Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return, vi. 3: 
And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for 
that he also is flesh, yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty 
years. 5 : And God saw the wickedness of man was great in the 
earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was 
only evil continually. 6 : And it repented (regretted) the Lord 
that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved (his love mercy 
justice regretted man's wickedness) him at his heart. 7 : And the 
Lord said, I will destroy (annihilate as man, in every possible 
existence of consciousness as man) man whom I have created from 
the face of the earth, for it repenteth me that I have made them 
(poor encouragement for married people, unless better children are 
the result). Ezek. xxiii. 2o : Whose flesh is as the flesh of asses. 
Job xi. 12 : For vain man would be wise, though man be born 
like a wild ass's colt, whose issue is like the issue of horses. Isa. 
xxxi. 3 : Horses are flesh, not spirit. Ps. lxxviii. 39 : God re- 
membered that they were but flesh ; a wind that passeth away and 
cometh not again. Jer. xvii. 5: Cursed be the man that trusteth 
in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from 
the Lord. Luke xxiv. 39 : A spirit hath not flesh and bones. 
Rom. vii. 25 : With the mind I (Paul) myself serve the law of 
God, but with the flesh the law of sin. viii. 1 : There is therefore 
now no condemnation of them which are in Christ Jesus, who 
walk not after the flesh but after the spirit. 5 : For they that 
are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh, but they that 
are after the spirit the things of the spirit. 6 : For to be carnally 
minded is death ; but the devil in the serpent said, Ye shall not 
die (Gen. iii. 4). So say men creeds to-day, death is only separa- 
tion from God they say by sin. Lord open their eyes to see, 
please. Acts xvii. 28 : In God we live, and move, and have our* 
being. Out of God, separated from his life giving power proba- 
tion, no mortal can live a moment ; if in God we live, out negative, 
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418 JOHN VI. 

we cannot live. But to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 
7 : Because the "carnal mind is enmity against God is God's jus- 
tice power infinite sword flame so helpless that it cannot destroy 
what dust man begets ; does it take eternity to destroy his fbes 
in ? What mock madness. Num. xvi. 20, 21 : And the Lord 
spake unto Moses and unto Aaro*n, saying, Separate yourselves 
from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a 
moment. Deut. iv. 24 : The Lord our God is a consuming fire. 
Heb. xii. 29 : Our God is a consuming fire. The enemies to 
God's laws he consumes; not a helpless, quenchable fire, in which 
they are tortured forever. 

66.] Went back. — Backslid. Matt. xiii. 3-8 : Wayside hearers, 
stony place hard, or wicked hearts void of love, thorn hearers, care 
of the world, and deceitfulness of riches choke the word. Good 
ground, he that heareth the word and understandeth it. 

67.] Will ye also. — By these words he accuseth the unfaithful- 
ness of those who had forsook him. 

68.] Words of eternal life. — Nature life words, the Lord God 
had in creation spirit birth life eternal Jesus brought to earth. 
Bom. ii. 7 ; v. 21 ; vi. 23 : For the wages of sin is death, but the 
gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. 1 Tim. 
vi. 12 : Lay hold on eternal life. Titus i. 2 : In hope of eternal 
life (iii. 7 ; 1 John i. 2; ii. 25; iii. 15). No murderer hath eternal 
life abiding in him ; whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer. 
6: Whosoever abideth in Christ sinncth not; whosoever sinneth 
hath not seen him, neither known him. v. 11 : And this is the 
record that God hath given to us, eternal life, and this life is in 
his Son. 12 : He that hath the Son hath life, and he that hath 
not the Son of God hath not life. 20 : There is no immortality 
in the wicked. 

69.] And toe believe, and are sure. — Every real child of God 
spirit born holy believes and knows by experimental spirit birth 
knowledge that Jesus Christ hath fulfilled in them all he promised 
to do in the day they sought eternal life of God, the Father of all 
spirits holy, through Christ the mediator, with all their heart ; 
repenting of all past sins, and asking their forgiveness in Jesus' 
mediatorial name, and to please create within them a clean heart, 
and renew a right spirit within their soul mind to quicken them 
into a new creature spirit being pulsating eternal life love of God 
the Father of all spirits holy. 



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Chapter VII. 

2.] Feast of tabernacles. — The Jews had three great annual 
feasts : the feast of the passover, pentecost, and of tabernacles 
(Deut. xvi. 1-15), last held from the 15th to 22d of Tizri, which 
included a part of September and October harvest feast. 

3.] Depart. — It is likely they feared Herod the king, who 
governed in Galilee (Luke xiii. 31). Thy disciples. — Which are 
in Judea and receive thy doctrine, which here is rejected. 

4.] These things. — Miracles which he wrought in proof of his 
beino- the Messiah. 

o 

5.] For neither did. — His brethren believe in him ; whereby 
we are clearly taught the truth that a prophet is not accepted in 
his own country, and also that spirit birth new creatures alone can 
discern spirit truth. 

6.] My time. — You may go to the feast now or any time you 
please, it is of no importance whatever. I have certain times for 
certain purposes, the time for me to go up is not full yet. 

7.] The world. — Ps. ix. 8 ; xvii. 14 ; xxxiii. 8 ; xlix. 1 ; Isa. 
xiii. 11 ; xxxiv. 1 ; Matt. iv. 8 ; v. 14 ; xiii. 38, 40 ; xvi. 26 ; 
xviii. 7 ; xxiv. 14 ; Luke xx. 35 ; John i. 10, 29 ; iii. 16 ; vi. 
33, 51 ; viii. 12 ; xii. 47 ; xiv. 17, 19, 22, 27, 31 ; xv. 18, 19 ; 
xvi. 33", xvii. 5, 6, 9, 14, 16 (spirit born). They are not of the 
world, even as I am not of the world (xxi. 25 ; xviii. 20 ; Rom. 
iii. 6, 19 ; 1 Cor. i. 21 ; ii. 12 ; vi. 2 ; xi. 32). 

10.] In secret. — Privately, or in a retired manner as a private 
citizen. 

12.] Murmuring. — Private discussion pro and con., dissension, 
some for truth, some for false accusations against Jesus ; which 
same devil spirit Babel creeds of men blind the intellects of mor- 
tals, who will not come to the truth light to see whether they are 
deceived or not. Acting as though their full belief of false creeds 
would save them, even if they had mistaken the broad way to 
death for truth's right way to spirit birth holiness and immortal 
life in God's spirit heaven. 

13.] Fear. — Fearing a riotous disturbance of the peace by dis- 
sensions. 

15.] Letters. — Earthly learning, which to-day is the great en- 
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of men ; like the Jews, they would to-day judge the Lord and his 
illiterate fishermen as unworthy of being permitted to preach in 
their spirit Babel men creed churches collation. Colleges are 
made the sine qua non of theology, that doctors college divinities, 
and teaches the science of the pagan popery traditions of men doc- 
trines of the inquisition preachers of the dark ages of Roman 
Catholic popery. Whose preachers, Martin Luther, and John 
Calvin, and their associates, handed down their pagan demon idol 
myth god as a monster devil, whose power had aided them to 
burn at the stake poor helpless men and women as heretics if they 
dissented from their doctrines of devils, who through the priests, 
bishops, cardinals, popes, and other humbug titled officials in church 
and State over which popes then ruled with iron powers, and 
murdered the saints of God. They made a myth devil god like 
themselves, that after they had burned in the most horrid agony 
torture the poor man, woman, boy or girl for heresy believing that 
the Scripture taught a very different doctrine from what popery 
taught ; any doctrine contrary to the men creed church was held 
to be heresy. But a heretic, in truth, is a person of any creed, or 
no creed of men's manufacture that flatly contradicts God's revealed 
Scripture truths. The doctrines clearly taught by infallible stat- 
ute laws of God, when contradicted by any mortal or any church 
association, all such are heretics. 1 Cor. i. 17 : For Christ sent 
me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel ; not with wisdom of 
words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect. 18 : 
For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness, 
but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. 19 : For it 
is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to 
nothing the understanding of the prudent. 20 : Where is the 
wise ? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world ? 
21 : The world by wisdom knew not God. 25 : The foolishness 
of God's (people) is wiser than men. 26 : For ye see your calling 
brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many 
mighty, not many noble are called. 27 : But God hath chosen 
the foolish things of the world to confound the wise. 31 : He 
that glorieth let him glory in the Lord ; give all the glory of sal- 
vation to God the father of all spirits holy and immortal and to 
his spirit word power creation Son, father by his spirit word power 
(Gen. iii. 15) of the Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten son of 
the Lord God, who was and is our mediator, Saviour, and re- 
deemer ; by way of his spirit birth alliance with God, his spirit 



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father, who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no 
man can approach unto (1 Tim. vi. 16). 

16.] Not mine. — Man's woman's seed nature, creeds of men, 
my manufacture of nature earthly vain imaginations. But it 
is eternal truths from God revealed through me (thus I in 
writing these Day Thoughts would say, 'Tis Scripture truths I 
quote). 

17.] If any man will do his will. — Obey his commands as 
found in Scripture truths, seek God through Christ with all thy 
blood life heart will to create within you a clean heart, and renew 
and impart new creature soul mind spirit birth being that shall 
pulsate eternal love spirit life gratitude to God ; then spirit birth 
life, and spirit love to God and mankind will pervade your soul 
mind when you seek God in truth and verity with all your heart, 
soul mind and strength, desiring fully that God's spirit love life 
immortal light should fill your soul mind and overflow with love to 
God and your neighbor as to yourself ; then he shall know by ex- 
perimental faith's spirit birth love peace that spirit birth holiness 
to the Lord is a truth, and that Christ is the truth, the life 
spiritual and immortal, and the only way to heaven. 

18.] Of himself. — Of his own strength, in and of himself inde- 
pendent of God the father of all life spiritual, immortal and holy ; 
and source of all life germs creation power, thus Shaw's Day 
Thoughts of Scripture truths are dependent wholly upon the 
Lord, who sent me on my mission from him to the churches on 
earth who desire truthfully to obey his truths ; I of myself am 
but as a dust atom animate with life from dust nature blood life 
Adamic, which is limited to probation's brief earthly sojourn. 
And for spirit birth spirit life immortal I am wholly indebted each 
moment of its eternal existence to God the father of all spirit life 
immortal, and to the mediator his spirit word son of creation power, 
and to his spirit word love mercy promise in Eden, that the seed 
of Eve who the devil death spirit of evil poison in the serpent had 
seduced from the way of perfect love holiness obedience to eat of 
soul's poison, whence all Adam and Eve's offsprings would have 
been spiritually born from the soul ; but the forbidden fruit was 
the promoter of animal nature's lust desires, which gratified brought 
Cain the murderer of his brother Abel into existence as its first 
fruits. John xv. 5 : I am the vine, ye are the branches ; he that 
abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much friiil ; 
for without me ye can do nothing. I should be as helpless as an 

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infant, in thought, words, or deeds, were it not for the aid I receive 
through God's goodness, love and mercy. 

19.] None of yen keepeth the law. — Their conduct towards him 
was a constant violation of Scripture laws of God by his prophets ; 
and to-day, like the Jews with traditions of men, they seduce the 
people with false men creeds. 

24.] Judge not according to the appearance. — Nor from preju- 
dice against the person judged, because the humble woman was a 
Nazarene, that had supplied the woman's seed egg, of which the 
Lord God's spirit word life (Gen. iii. 15) begot the blood life body 
of Jesus, the only spirit begotten being the Lord God ever made ; 
and the closing up of sacrificial and ceremonial and parabolic sac- 
rifices and oblations to the Lord Gocl who, with the sacrifice, de- 
stroyed soul death by Satan in all who receive his spirit word 
immortal life's spirit love seed into their souls mind belief, through 
blood life's heart will door, through which alone can access be had 
to the soul mind belief receptacle seed egg, which brings forth 
spirit life immortal beings when God's spirit word truth impreg- 
nates them. Earthly judges who know nothing about spirit birth 
new creature life immortal cannot judge thereof. The perjurer 
and liar, or lawyer, prejudices the wicked judge against the honest 
man or woman. Such persons malign and defame the saints of 
God, as they did the Lord Jesus. If you hear evil accusations 
against a brother or sister, ask them how it is ; not tell every 
mortal you meet that such persons are guilty, right or wrong. 

27.] We know this man. — His parentage and place of birth. 
Thus I have had persons in the church and out of the church 
claim to know all about me, when in truth they were villainous 
liars, and knew nothing about me, temporally or spiritually ; 
neither had I any knowledge whatever of them, nor did I desire 
any. Because the man was born poor, and by industry and saving 
he becomes honorably well supplied with earthly means, his former 
poverty has no truth in him then. Christ's spirit father created 
the earth, and all the gold and silver therein. His wealth is in- 
finite in every wealth of value. They knew not by spirit love 
birth the Lord God, father by his spirit word life of Jesus spirit 
life holy, from the Lord God ; therefore they falsely said we know 
whence he is. 

28.] Not "come of myself .—He was sent of God, whom ye know 
not. Though they had the Scriptures, they did not understand 
the character of God as a spirit (John iv. 24). 



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30.] His hour. — His time to be taken and slain ; the lives of 
all spirit born holy he protects. 

33.] Yet a little while am I with you. — He gives them to 
understand that they can do nothing against him until the time 
which his Father hath appointed to make the sacrifice arrives ; then 
the blood life alone is freely given to redeem the spirit born from 
death's power, and in the end of time to destroy last of all 
enemies, — death, the devil's unclean spirit (1 Cor. xv. 26, 44; 
Heb. ii. 14). 

34.] Ye shall seeh me, and shall not find me. — After this utter 
rejection of my last proffered mercy ye shall continue blindly 
seeking Messias, Saviour, and shall find none, there being no other 
Saviour but me ; and because you do not discern me, and know 
not what it is to seek God the father, or me, in spirit, you will 
not know how to find me, and your willful incredulity excludes 
you from access to my Father, and from life everlasting. Where I 
am. — 33 : And then I go to him that sent me ; and where I am 
then, ye cannot come. 1 Tim. vi. 16: Who only hath immor- 
tality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto. 

35.] Unto the dispersed among the Gentiles. — The Jews and 
Israelites dispersed among the Gentile nations of earth, and de- 
generated in religion, language, and customs (James i. 1 ; 1 Pet.i. 1). 

37.] That great day of the feast. — Emblem of this last dispensa- 
tion of spirit soul birth, the eighth day of the feast of tabernacles, 
a day of solemn assembly (Lev. xxiii. 36 ; John xix. 31).. Cried. 
— Spake with great freedom, not fearing any man. Saying. — If 
any man thirst (for spirit love drink for the soul, John iv. 14). 
The Jews relate, in their writings, that in this last day of the feast 
of the tabernacles the people, by an ancient tradition, went and 
fetched water from the fountain of Siloa, in certain great vessels, 
and brought it into the temple to the priests, who poured it out 
upon the altar, singing the third verse of the twelfth of Isaiah. 
Therefore with joy shall we draw water out of the wells of salva- 
tion. 6 : For great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee, 
Zion. 

38.] Rivers of living ivater. — Spirit life gospel words of spirit 
truth love life immortal shall overflow from the soul mind spirit 
born of love of God in Christ's love infinite, received in impregna- 
tion the soul mind with quickening love life immortal spirit love 
life light, which spirit born soul mind believes Christ's spirit love 
life words truth. 



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39.] The Holy Ghost. — Acts xix. 2 ; ii. 2 : Suddenly there 
came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind (John iii. 
8) and filled all the house where they were sitting. 3 : And there 
appeared unto them cloven tongues, like as of fire, and sat upon 
each of them. 4 : And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, 
spirit love of Christ (Rom. viii. 9), and began to speak with other 
tongues, as the spirit gave them utterance, which no doubt he 
referred to. 

40.] The Prophet. — The prophet who they thought would pre- 
cede the Messiah (Matt. xvi. 14). 

41.] Galilee. — The Jews claimed Judea as the exalted place 
where Messiah should make his appearance. Matt. ii. 6 : And 
thou Bethlehem, in the land of Judea. And Nazareth was de- 
spised by the proud wicked Jews, as at this day the proud wicked 
speak mockingly of places and persons that have been nicknamed 
or evil spoken of by slanderous liars. The devil's tare seed child- 
ren are numerous on earth, and hate the righteous, who they 
malign and nickname, or slander, or all together, and liars prefer 
lies to wholesale rather than retail truth ; lies are of ready sale 
and swift winged, truth is eternal and moves majestic, strong but 
slow. And if a saint child of Grod is spirit born in Sodom, if he 
abides in full obedience to Grod's commands like Lot, he is happy 
in spirit love life holy, though tribulation's sorrows surround him 
in the wicked that hate him, and malign and persecute him ; yet 
amidst all his troubles, in Christ he hath peace. 

42.] Bethlehem. — These Jews by their remarks show that they 
knew little of Christ, not even knowing that he was born in Beth- 
lehem as prophesied ; but judged according to the place he 
frequented and taught the people, even as it now commonly 
happens among those who being possessed with an unclean devil 
spirit, or evil opinions of another, and worse affection, judge 
according to what appears, without investigation. David was. — 
Where the residence of his father's family was, Bethlehem. 

46.] Never man spake like this man. — Whereby the power of 
Christ's truth words is seen against his enemies. 

49.] T 'his people. — The common people, the lay church mem- 
bers to whom the Pharisee priests imputed criminal ignorance of 
the Scriptures, claiming full knowledge thereof themselves while 
wilfully disobeying Grod's commandments on Mount Sinai, Thou 
shalt not kill ; and sought to and did soon after cry, Away with 
Christ Jesus, crucify, murder him. 



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Chapter VIII 

6.] Tempting him. — Should lie decide she ought to be put to 
death, they would have accused him of assuming judicial authority. 
If he decided the other way, they would accuse him of being- 
opposed to Moses. On the ground. — To show that sins can be 
erased from soul mind's memory when they repent truthfully and 
sin no more ever after, as writing in the dust can be easily erased ; 
but there is no safety in sin a moment, then you may die. 

7.] He that is without sin among you. — Christ well knew they 
were guilty sinners, like the poor wretched girl they had led astray 
from virtue's peaceful holy way to life, and would now malign and 
doom to death, when each of them no doubt were equally guilty 
with her ; or far more guilty, being quite likely her seducers by 
lies, promises of honorable marriage. 

10.] Saw none. — None of her accusers present to cast the first 
death stone at the poor sinful mortal, in remorse repentance deep 
no doubt. Hath no man condemned thee ? 

11.] She said, No man, Lord. — Neither do I exercise this 
prerogative of the civil magistrate, go, and sin no more. 

12.] Light of life. — 1 Tim. vi. 16 : God only hath immortality, 
dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto. 2 Tim. 
i. 10 : But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour 
Jesus Christ, who hath abolished, conquered, death ; and abolished 
the law of soul death in all who are spirit born holy receivers and 
believers of God's spirit love life light, whose lamp of life immor- 
tal shall eternally burn with expanding spirit life light, and who 
shall pulsate spirit life immortal love. John vi. 63 : It is the 
spirit that quickeneth, the flesh profiteth nothing. The words 
that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life. 

13.] Of thyself. — You testify in your own case ; if truthfully, 
who is wronged ? 

14.] Record is true. — Your refusing to receive my witness pro- 
ceeds from willful malicious suppression of the knowledge which I 
have given you of my divine calling, and of the full accomplish- 
ment thereof by my ascent into heaven, and my future glorifica- 
tion. And thus ought to be reconciled to Christ's saying (John 
vii. 28). 

15.] After the flesh. — Rashly, according to outward appear- 
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426 JOHN VIII. 

ances, under the power of prejudice, with selfish motives and 
worldly ends. No man. — iii. 17 ; xii. 47. 

17.] Your law. — Deut. xvii. 6 ; xix. 15 ; Matt, xviii. 16 : 
Whereof you boast. Is true. — Sufficient to be a proof to obtain 
judgment. 

18.] That bear witness. — He stated the truth concerning him- 
self and confirmed it by miracles, to which the Father added his 
testimony ; of course his witness is true. And there are thousands 
of witnesses now living on the earth that by experimental spirit 
birth, received in obeying Christ's requirements obedience to his 
commands. I, R. Tennent Shaw, hereby certify that I have met 
with a change of heart, and soul mind spirit birth, and that I then 
and ever since that time can truthfully witness that God's immor- 
tal life love spirit in Christ, in answer to prayer to God the father 
through the merits alone of Christ Jesus, and the grace mercy 
love infinite of God the father of all spirits holy, and his spirit 
word Son, and only begotten son. I felt his immortal life love 
light illuminate my soul mind, and gave me new creature life full 
of love to God, and all who love him, with peace ever deep within, 
undisturbed by the howls of devils in human form, who are full 
of hatred toward all truth, and holy light. 

19.] Said they. — Scoffing brutes, ignorant tare seed children of 
the devil, and doomed to death ; but the devil in them would taunt 
the holy Redeemer : Have you another father besides Joseph ? 
Do not we know you, and your kindred ? Poor ignorant fools 
that serve the devil, their liar father, faithfully, and was as 
ignorant of the truthful miraculous spirit birth of the woman's 
seed body of Jesus, as they were of the spirit birth plan of gospel 
New Testament dispensation. Grace of God being then extended 
through infinite love, goodness and mercy to Adam and Eve's sin 
lust begotten race, it would be like throwing pearls to swine to tell 
them of his spirit Father. Ye neither know me, nor my father. 
— They were carnal descendants of Adam, unspirit born, and could 
not therefore know his spirit Father. 

20.] The treasury. — The apartment in which was kept the 
money for the support of the temple service. 

21.] Die in your sins. — Ezek. xviii. 4, 20 : The soul that sin- 
neth, it shall die. The soul is the life of the intellect the same as 
the heart is the life generator of blood life. 24 : All his right- 
eousness shall not be mentioned that he hath done ; in his sins that 
he hath sinned, in them shall he die. 27 : When the wicked man 



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turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and 
doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive. 

23.] I am not of this world. — Ye are. of this world. Luke 
xvi. 8 : The children of this world are in their generation wiser 
than the children of light, xx. 34 : Children of this world marry 
and are given in marriage. John ix. 39 : And Jesus said, For 
judgment I am come into this world ; that they which see not 
(Gentiles) might see, and that they which see (Jews) might be 
made blind, xii. 25 : He that loveth his (blood) life shall lose it. 

24.] Ye shall die in your sins. — If ye believe not that I am the 
Son of the Lord God. 

26.] I have many things to say. — And to judge of you. He 
that sent me is truth ; and I speak to the world those things he 
commissions me to say to you. It is not for my salvation, exal- 
tation, or glory, that I tell you of the perils that surround you, 
and warn you to discard men creeds false teachings ; it is your life 
that is imperiled, your souls, your all beyond the grave is in peril. 

28.] Lifted up the Son of man. — Crucified him. Nothing of 
myself. — Woman's seed blood life flesh body nature will, and de- 
sires for prolonged nature life, all are fully surrendered to perfect 
holiness, surrender subjection to the will of my spirit Father, 
whose power and infinite love governs my words and acts (Gen. 
xxii. 7, 8). 

31.] In my loord. — All who obey the commands of the com- 
mander in chief of earth's army of spirit love light immortal, 
abide in his word ; nor seek any other than the Scripture truths 
for their creeds or confessions of faith or discipline, such are truth- 
ful disciples. 

32.] The truth shall make you free. — Ps. li. 12 : Restore unto me 
the joy of thy salvation ; and uphold me with thy free spirit. 13: 
Then will I teach transgressors thy ways ; and sinners shall be 
converted unto thee. 5 : Behold I was shapen in iniquity, and 
in sin did my mother conceive me. Isa. lviii. 6 : Let the oppressed 
go free, and that ye break every yoke ; Satan's false creeds of men 
of this world's wisdom and self glory (Jer. xxxiv. 9). Matt. xv. 
6 : And honor not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus 
have ye made the command of God (Exod. xx. 12 : Honor thy father 
and thy mother) of none effect by your tradition (of men creeds) 
Rom. vi. 18 ; Being made free from sin, ye became the servants 
of righteousness. 20 : For when ye were servants of sin ye were 
free from righteousness, viii. 2 : For the law of the spirit of life 



428 JOHN VIII. 

in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. 
3 : God sending his own son in likeness of sinful flesh, and for 
sin, condemned sin in the flesh. Thus the body flesh is left to 
death and corruption at probation blood life's close. 4 : That the 
righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not 
after the flesh, but in the spirit. 6 : For to be carnally minded is 
death ; but to be spiritually minded (spirit birth from soul's spirit 
egg mind) is life and peace. 1 Cor. ix. 1 : Am I not an apostle ? 
am I not free ? xii. 1 3 : Gal. iii. 28 ; iv. 26 : Jerusalem, which 
is above, is free, which is the mother of us all. 31 : So then, we 
are not children, brethren, of the bond-woman, but of the free, 
v. 1 : Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath 
made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of (sin) 
bondage (to Satan death). 

33.] Abraham 's seed. — We are of the blessed rich man's 
progeny, to whom liberty and domination is promised (Gen. xxv. 
23). The elder shall serve the younger, and therefore nobody 
hath any right to be Lord over us but God. 

34.] Is the servant. — Your carnal minds think only of body 
servitude, not soul mind slavery to the devil, death. But I speak 
to you of faith's spiritual liberty by way of spirit soul mind birth 
from God's spirit love life immortal, without which all mortals are 
slaves to sin, the devil's unclean spirit slavery ; and while such 
are children of death, having no heavenly home of life immortal 
freedom, from sin slavery that ends in death by body and soul ; 
having no spirit birth from God's spirit love seed, sown by Christ 
in the soul mind, whereby they of spirit birth, new creatures in 
Christ, become children of God, and free to fly in beatific glory 
love freedom's eternal life. Whosoever committeth sin is the ser- 
vant of sin. 

35.] Abideth not in the house forever. — In the dust-house; the 
servant of sin ceases to exist when the life blood dies, and the body 
soon rots back to nature elements, in the same manner the fruit, 
grain, and dead animal bodies that they have eaten, and out of 
which the mortal body is formed, would have done if left to 
nature death rottenness. The soul also dies (Ezek. xviii. 4). 

36.] If the Son.— This title of Son of God, and the only 
spirit begotten of God, belongs to Christ Jesus alone, and he only 
is free from sin. All Adam's sin lust begotten race are slaves to 
Satan death by reason of sin. And through Christ's mediation and 
spirit love of God seed sown in the soul mind which, when it con- 



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ccives, believes God's spirit words of spirit life immortal to be truths 
eternal life, and then they become children of God, free from slavery 
to sin and death ; eternal freedom while they are holy. 

37.] Abraham's seed. — According to the flesh, but not according 
to the spirit birth faith belief in the promise (Gen. iii. 15 ; Heb. ii. 
14 ; Rom. iv. 6 ; ix. 6, 7 ; Gal. iii. 7). My word hath no place 
in you. — In their soul mind they would not receive his truth unto 
soul mind impregnation belief unto their spirit birth. 

38.] Seen. — What is in accordance with the will of the Lord 
God ? Which ye have seen. — With the devil death, whom you 
obey through his seducing evil enticements in the world's recre- 
ations, which is his death house. 

39.]' Children. — Truthful believers, as was Abraham's faith in 
God's promises. 

40.] Of God. — He speaks in the person of mediator. 

41.] One father. — Spiritual father (the devil death in truth), 
but like false men creed worshipers of the devil's Eden creed, that 
the wicked are immortal, and cannot die. Gen. iii. 4 : Ye shall 
not surely die. God says, Gen. ii. 17, Thou shalt surely die. The 
devil's children, it would seem natural, agree with their father, 
the devil death, that God cannot annihilate anything he has 
made or suffered to come into existence. Ocular evidence of myth 
mind insanity and devil mockery of God's infinite attributes power. 
They perceived Christ referred to spirit father. 

42.] If God were your father, ye would love me. — All regener- 
ated by God's spirit love seed, after spirit birth of spirit loves spirit 
word gospel truths, dwell in love. If ye were regenerated by God's 
Spirit, you would know and love me (Gal. iv. 5 ; 1 John v. 4). 

43.] Why do ye not. — You cannot pretend ignorance, for it is 
your malicious, willful resistance to truth only, which the devil hath 
instilled into your soul minds, and hath engendered in you, through 
your voluntary inclinations to follow his suggestions, which makes 
you unapt to learn my doctrine. 

44.] Your father, the devil. — It is his evil, foul, unclean spirit, 
tare lies, that hath been sown through your blood life heart will 
door to soul mind birth belief in your Jewish false men creeds that 
abrogates even God's commands on Mount Sinai. The devil hath 
engrafted in you the stem of malice, which appeareth in all 3^our 
actions, and made you like unto himself full of hatred to love and 
Scripture truths, and other sins. A murderer. — Gen. iii. 4 : Ye 
shall not surely die. 5 : Ye shall be as gods, immortal in life, 



430 JOHN IX. 

as now taught in men creeds, (covering the falsehood by seeming 
justice), but in eternal life torment, flatly contradicting God. 
Gen. ii. 17 : Thou shalt surely die (Gen. iii. 19). 

52.] Shall never taste cf death. — Spiritual soul death. Ezek. 
xviii. 4 : The soul that sinneth it shall die. To taste death, and 
to see death, are Hebrew modes of speech which signify to die ; 
for the faithful even in blood life death then enter upon their end- 
less spirit soul new creature life, that like the dove chicken bursts 
its shell body, never more to be closed in thereby, and seeks its 
spirit father's spirit home in the eternal day summer spirit love 
life, where no sorrow, pain, or death in any form can enter to 
poison life immortal. 

53.] Abraham which is dead. — Luke xx. 37 : Now that the dead 
(in blood life bodies) are raised ; not to be raised, but are in soul's 
new creature spirit born, spirit love life immortal like the angels 
of God, being his spirit born children of light life holiness ; raised 
from earth nature life body then dead to eternal life spiritual in 
heaven, even Moses showed at the bush, when he called the 
Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of 
Jacob. 38 : For he is not a God of the dead (blood life bodies 
of Abraham or any other of Adam's dust race, that God hath 
sentenced to death), but of the living. 

54.] If I honor myself. — With official titles, pope, rabbi, cardi- 
nal, bishop, D.D., F.R.S., etc., and assume to be great as man, and 
not give all the glory to God, who only hath self-existent immortality. 

55.] Ye have not known him. — By spirit birth knowledge. 
John iii. 5 : Except a man be born of water and of the spirit 
(love of God), he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 

59.] Stones to cast at him. — Because he being woman's seed 
claimed truthfully that the Lord God was his spirit Father. Hid 
himself by his spirit power, made his body invisible to mortals. 



Chapter IX. 



3.] Neither. — Neither his sin nor theirs was the cause of his 
blindness. 

i.] / must work. — The works of God perform divine love, 



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goodness and mercy works. While it is day. — While I live in 
blood life flesh body existence on earth. The night. — Death. 

5.] / am the light. — Spiritual life light immortal, all earth 
light was transient, death soon closed nature life's day ; heavenly 
spirit life immortal wisdom knowledge. 

7.] Pool of Siloam. — This was a fountain at the southeast 
part of Jerusalem, near the foot of Mount Zion, flowing in two 
streams, which were conducted to two pools, the upper and lower. 
(Isa. vii. 3, 22 : ix.). Sent, — The meaning of the Hebrew word 
Siloam. 

16.] Keepeth not the sabbath. — He did not keep it as the 
Pharisee men creed directed ; but he did keep it according to the 
letter of the sixth commandment. 

22.] Be put out. — Excommunicated, and interdicted by the 
church (Ezra x. 8). 

24.] Praise. — The praise of healing him ; we know this man is 
a sinner : lies was their refuge. 

25.] One thing I know. — All their subterfuge availed not ; he 
knew of a truth and verity, as doth every one spirit born of God. 
Whereas I was blind, as are millions on earth by false men creeds, 
after experimental spirit birth (John iii. 5) from God's love spirit 
life seed. Matt. xiii. 37, 38 : Now I see. 

29.] From whence. — Viz., who hath sent him, or from whom 
he hath his charge and authority, whether he be of God or not 
(John viii. 14). Thus false men creed preachers and their adhe- 
rents will probably say of Shaw's Day Thoughts. But I claim 
only to be as a dust animate with Christ's love light spirit birth, 
and quote his Scripture truths. He thus speaks through me. 

31.] God heareth not sinners. — The man who blasphemes God's 
name, asking God to damn his or any other person's soul or body, 
if answered, would soon sweep drunkards and other swearing 
prayer makers out of existence. Wicked men are always abhor- 
rent to God, as a dead carcase stench to the nostrils of mortals of 
cleanliness. When sinners repent of their sins, and as vile lepers 
truthfully with all their heart blood life will for spirit birth new 
creature life of purity holiness, then the Mediator's blood shed 
without the city, in efficacy atonement for their past sins, admits 
them into interceding communication with Christ Jesus the 
Mediator. 

34.] Cast him out. — Turned him out of their synagogue church. 

35.] He had found him. — Even so are all such found of Jeeus 



432 JOHN X. 

Christ's spirit love, who for his name's sake are rejected by men 
creed churches, or by the world, as all such pertains wholly to this 
world's short life. 

39.] For judgment. — That those who feel their spiritual blind- 
ness, and apply to me for sight, may receive it. And that those 
who do not, but proudly imagine that they see enough already, and 
that their tradition of the elders, or men creeds of tradition are 
the true church guide, and reject my aid, may sink in deeper dark- 
ness and be more blind than ever before. And to the condemna- 
tion of proud titled church officials. 

41.] If ye were blind. — If your sin were a sin of mere igno- 
rance, it might be remissible. 1 Tim. i. 13: But having the 
knowledge of divine things (John vii. 28) whereof you make 
profession and show, and which I have declared unto you (John 
xv. 22), your sin can no way be imputed but to an obstinate 
self-willed malignity ; and, therefore, it becomes incorrigible and 
irremissible. Matt. xii. 32 ; Mark iii. 29 : Your sin remaineth. 



Chapter X. 



1.] He that entereth not by the door. — In this similitude Christ 
is the spirit life immortal love light narrow way door of truth. 
His Scriptures" are truth's way to heaven by way of spirit birth 
new creatures in Christ Jesus (spirit born of Christ's spirit word 
of God promise love spirit seed). Matt. xiii. 37, 38 ; John iii. 
1-8 ; 2 Cor. v. 17 ; Gal. vi. 7, 8, 15 ; Matt. vii. 13 : Enter ye 
in at the strait gate; for wide is the gate, and broad is the 
(men creeds, spirit Babel) way, that leadeth to destruction (an- 
nihilation of conscious existence), and many (creeds and sects, 
and of no creed or truth in them) there be which go in thereat. 
14 : Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way (no proud, 
the church, four or six horse coach and six can enter the narrow 
way ; they all run in the broad, popular with the masses, fashion- 
able way). 

2.] Shepherd. — A true spiritual teacher of the gospel truths 
of spirit birth holiness. 

3.] Porter. — Doorkeeper. The sheep. — Spirit born new' crea- 



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tures holy in Christ Jesus (2 Cor. v. 17 ; Gal. vi. 15 ; John iii- 
5). True spirit Christians hear his voice, receive and obey his 
directions (not false creeds). 

4.] Follow him, — Christ the Lord Scripture truth guidance 
love. 

5.] Strangers.-^- False, irreligious men creed teachers that dis- 
card Scripture truths. 

6.] Understood not — The meaning of what he had said. He 
then explained it. 

7.] The door. — Matt. xiii. 37 : He that soweth the good seed 
is the Son of man (Jesus). 38 : The good seed are children of 
the kingdom. John iii. 5 : Except a man be born of the spirit, 
he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. vi. 7 : By spirit birth 
holiness door. Christ's mediatorial sacrifice by way of God's in- 
finite grace love. 

8.] Came he/ore me — As religious guides, without authority 
from God ; teaching men tradition creeds, ceremonial perform- 
ances, outward vocal prayers of the lips, to be heard by mortal 
ears (Matt. vi. 5). 

9.] / am the door. — The only possible way of salvation and im- 
mortal spirit life is opened by the infinite love sacrifice and mercy 
love promise (Gen. iii. 15; Heb. ii. 14). John xi. 25,. 26: I am 
the resurrection and the life (immortal, spiritual, John iii. 5). 
Find pasture. — Spiritual food, love. 

10.] The thief. — Men who preach false creeds, contradicting 
Scripture truths, wolves in sheep's outward clothing, which they 
steal, to serve the devil and self, a good cash salary, if they can 
get it ; and kill and destroy soul minds that God's Scripture truth 
love spirit life immortal in Christ might, if they had received it, 
quickened into life. I am come that they might have life. — And 
as few in past ages, since creation of Adam in Eden, have em- 
braced by faith spirit birth life immortal, in the future probation 
time of blood life existence through me, many more abundantly 
shall partake of spirit life birth. 

11.] The good shepherd. — In them which followeth he makes 
mention of three sorts, two of worldly shepherds, viz. : the spirit 
birth life immortal truth shepherds ; the worldly hireling, who 
preaches for money salary ;■ and the disguised false creed devour- 
ing shepherd — wolf. 

12.] A hireling. — Serving for wages ; one who is hired ; venal ; 
mercenary employed for money, or other compensation. One 
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434 JOHN X. 

whose great object in preaching is his own interest (the false 
D.D.'s, popes, cardinals, and worldly self, and worshiped by fools, 
titled rabbis. Matt, xxiii. 8 : Be ye not called rabbi : lord, rabbi, 
master. A title assumed by the Jewish doctors, signifying master 
or lord), and all other corrupters, and men creeds false manufac- 
tures, that falsely contradict the Scriptures, also all the violent 
persecutors that seek to subvert the believers of Scripture truths, 
faith which every true shepherd ought to endeavor to maintain to 
the last. Wolf. — The enemy of God, and his children, or people. 
Such preach the same doctrine that Satan in the serpent preached 
to Eve. Gen. iii. 4, 5 : Ye shall not surely die : ye shall be as 
gods, immortal : now remodeled, sugar coated with deceptions 
wilful hatred of heretics, you shall be eternally dying in hell fire 
torture, but never dead. They treat all Scripture truths of God 
as ambiguous, having two or more meanings, doubtful, being of 
uncertain signification ; susceptible of different interpretations, 
hence obscure. When the Scriptures plainly say (Gen. ii. 7), 
And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground. 17 : 
But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shaft not eat 
of it : for in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. 
A spiritual death severance from immortal soul mind life light. 
Gen. iii. 19 : Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. 22 : 
Lest he take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever. 
24 : So he drove out the man : and he (the Lord God) placed at 
the east of the garden of Eden cherubim, and flaming sword 
which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life. But 
all this is ambiguous language, says the wolf preacher ; but Gen. 
iii. 4, 5 means what it says : And the serpent said unto the woman 
(Eve), ye shall not surely die ; ye shall be as gods (immortal). 
In hell fire torments says the devil's children of inquisition tor- 
tures of popery. 

13.] Careth not for the sheep. — Because he is preaching for 
pay in this world, a hireling. Rev. xxii. 17 : And the Spirit and 
the bride say, come. And let him that heareth (not is man com- 
missioned to preach, but a hearer shall) say come. And let him 
that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water 
of life freely. 

14.] Know — am hnown. — Greatly love my people ; and I am 
loved truthfully and affectionately, and with faith love by them. 

15.] The Father. — Spirit word creation power son of Jehovah 
God, My life for the sheep. — Woman's seed blood life holy 



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without sin sacrifice to keep his spirit born holy children of God, 
from wolf creeds of men on earth, and roaring lion devil prince 
and power of the air. 1 Pet. v. 8 : Be sober, be vigilant ; be- 
cause your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, 
seeking whom he may devour. 2 Pet. ii. 17 : To whom the mist 
of darkness is reserved forever. 18 : For they speak great swelling 
words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh. 

16.] Other sheep. — Gentile nations. Lazarus the poor man, 
who like dogs, as it were, and as Abraham is the rich man in gold, 
silver, and cattle, and promised land in abundance, whose children 
the Jews' rich nature children of promise till then had called the 
Gentiles dogs, and all the Gentiles obtained for soul food knowledge 
from God's revelation Scriptures was crumbs outside the rich man 
Jewish synagogues. But now the rich man Jews are outside of 
even their national boundaries, while we Gentiles have the Scrip- 
tures, and the conditional gospel regeneration spirit birth promises. 

17.] Therefore. — He doth not speak of spirit, but of woman's 
seed of nature blood life spirit begotten holy sacrifice. 

18.] Taketh it from me. — By power, and superior force, and 
against my will. 

20.] Is mad. — Beside himself, crazy. Through the influence 
of an evil spirit the accusers were crazy, not Christ. 

21.] Eyes of the blind. — Men creeds and sectarian politics are 
all full of blindness, made so with their blood life will consent. 
God only can open their blind intellect soul mind to spirit life im- 
mortal sight. 

22.] Feast of the dedication. — It began on the 15th Decem- 
ber, and lasted eight days. 

23.] Solomon s porch. — A portico on the east side of the 
temple. 

24.] Make us to doubt. — Hold us in suspense. They feigned 
as if they greatly desired to know the truth, that had over and 
over been demonstrated. 

25.] The works. — Miracles. Bear witness, prove that I am the 
Messiah. 

26.] Ye believe not. — And therefore it is impossible to convert 
you, and sow in your soul mind spirit love life immortal truths. 

28.] Eternal life. — No mortal could beget immortals, it is as 
darkness begetting light. All such creeds are utterly void of 
truth or reason. I give by way of my sacrificial blood life spirit 
begotten of immortal life, whereby I impart immortal life seed 



436 JOHN X. 

impregnation to all receivers of my spirit truths through blood life's 
heart will door into their soul minds, which is a free grace gift of 
God's infinite love that all spirits receiving are in unison with, and 
which alone imparteth immortal life from the Father of spirits 
holy. 

29.] My Father. — The spirit Father of all spirits, from whom all 
immortal in life receive their spirit being life (Heb. xii. 9). No 
man is able. — All the popish bulls and armies of earth combined 
with all the powers of darkness, devils, demons, and unclean spirits, 
wicked men, women and children combined, would be in opposi- 
tion to God's power as a glowworm's lust light of a moment ray, 
to endless eternity's eternal day sun ; or as a dust on a balance to 
boundless creation power of God, who speaks, Let there be light, 
and the ponderous sun beams forth his praise, which ages dim not. 
He creates and he annihilates all his foes. 

30.] land my Father are one. — 1 John iv. 16: God is love; 
and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. 

32.] From my Father. — Wherefore my Father is the first author 
by order of subsistency and operation, and which as mediator I do 
by his commission and power. Which of those works. — What 
have I done, what have you seen in me beside divine and wonder- 
ful miracles, and revealed truths of God's spirit life ? 

34.] Your law. — Old Testament Scriptures. Ps. lxxxii. 6 : 
I have said, Ye are Gods, and all of you are children of the Most 
High. 1 John v. 18 ; iii. 10 : Children of God. 

35.] If he called. — Spirit born holy children begotten of 
God gods, it would be the same as calling the devil's tare seed 
children devils, or unclean spirits truthfully. 

36.] Sanctified. — Made holy, consecrated, set apart for sacred 
services, and exalted to a supreme love to God, being a pure holy 
sacrifice made wholly for the salvation of repentant believers of 
truth, sent into the world to do the work requisite to fulfill his 
Messiah's mission. Zech. xiii. 6, 7 : And one shall say unto him, 
What are these wounds in thy hands ? Awake, sword, against 
my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the 
Lord of hosts. I have proved by my works that I am the Mes- 
siah, I am the spirit begotten Son of God by his word in Eden 
(Gen. iii. 15 ; Heb. ii. 14). 

37.] The works of my Father. — Proclaiming his grace soul 
mind spirit birth dispensation of his infinite spirit life immortal 
love light, that without the spirit birth redemption alliance to 



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Adam man that fell through woman Eve ; and by me is restored 
through woman's seed on compliance with the conditions of gospel 
grace of the Father of spirits, immortal in spirit life birth spirit 
love seed which I sow. 

38.] In me, and I in him. — 1 John iv. 16 : God is love ; and 
he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. We 
are one in love affinity. 

39.] They sought again to take him. — Because he claimed 
truthfully his mission and authority as Messiah, the only spirit 
begotten Son of the Lord God. 

41.] John did. — Namely, though John the Baptist did not 
confirm his ministry by any external miracle, yet the event hath 
fully verified all he said of Christ, and they believe his testimony, 
and believe Jesus Christ the truth life way. 

42.] Many believed. — Were spirit born new creatures delighting 
in truth and love, though Christ found many despisers of his 
words of truth, as to day on earth, in and out of church creeds 
of men associations, who prefer false imaginations of men to God's 
plainly revealed Scripture truths and statute laws. Yet there 
were always some who received the doctrine of truth. It is hard 
for me to proclaim the Scriptures to mortals who pretend to believe 
the Scriptures, and hold firmly to false creeds of men of inquisi- 
tion murders manufacture, handed down by Roman Catholic 
priests. 



Chapter XL 



1.] Bethany. — On the side of the Mount of Olives, about two 
miles from Jerusalem. 

4.] Not unto death. — Eternal, irrevocable as to bodies that see 
corruption rottenness. Might be glorified. — By raising Lazarus 
from the dead, thereby showing the power of the Lord God was 
with him. 

6.] In the same place. — Bethabara (i. 28). On the east side 
of Jordan, about thirty miles northeast of Jerusalem. 

9.] Twelve hours in the day. — John ix. 4 : The night cometh 
(death) when no man can work. If in its proper season a man 
does that to which God calls him (I believe I am called to write 
these Day Thoughts), he is wise, safe, and happy in life, in blood 

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life death, and forever. But if through fear of slanderous opposi- 
tion, or selfishness ease, he neglects it, he runs the hazard of 
losing his soul. Lord please help me do thy will, and bear thy 
message to the churches. 

16.] Thomas — Didymus. — A twin. With him. — Let us go 
with Jesus if it costs our blood lives. 

24.] In the resurrection at the last clay. — Martha had no doubt 
been taught by the Pharisee men creeds traditions of the elders, 
the same as the men creeds falsely teach to-day, that at the close 
of time, on the last day of earth's evolutions, that all human sin 
lust begotten flesh bodies would be raised, or resurrected, to im- 
mortal life in heaven, or hell fire torture eternal. 

25.] Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection [now present 
tense] and the life [of those I resurrect, Adam's life or soul has 
nothing to do with God's spirit begotten and spirit born children 
(1 John v. 18) ; Heb. xii. 9 : Shall we not much rather be in sub- 
jection unto the Father of spirits and live? Christ imparts the 
spirit life immortal to those he resurrects, no others can possibly 
be immortal. 1 Tim. vi. 16: God only hath immortality. 2 Tim. 
i. 10 : Christ brought life and immortality ; not Adam as false 
creeds of men teach] : he that believeth in me, though he were dead, 
yet shall he live. — Spiritually dead. Eph. ii. 1 : And you (spirit 
born of God, John iii. 5) hath Christ quickened, who were dead 
in trespasses and sins. 5 : God, when we were dead (spirit- 
ually, and blood life under the death sentence irrevocable of Adam's 
sin lust seed ; Gen. iii. 19) in sins, hath quickened us together with 
Christ. 8: It is the gift of God's grace. 18: For by Christ 
(saint's spirit vine, John xv. 5) we both have access by one spirit 
unto the Father (of spirits that live, Heb. xii. 9). 

26.] And whosoever liveth [is quickened, spirit born ; John 
iii. 5 ; 1 John v. 12 : Hath the spirit love of Christ, Rom. viii. 9] 
and believeth in me shall never die. — Believest thou this ? I 
do, verily, amen. Never die. — The soul's unclean tare spirit, or 
second death (Rev. xx. 2, 11 ; vi. 14 ; Matt. xiii. 38-40 ; Ezek. 
xviii. 4, 20, 24, 27). Blood life, nature's earthly product all dies, 
bodies return back to nature elements, which they are. (Gen. iii. 
19 ; Eccles. xii. 7 ; Isa. vi. 24 ; Obad. 16 ; Mai. iv. 1 ; Matt. iii. 
12). Are resurrected when spirit born. 

33.] Was troubled. — Greatly moved with sympathy and sorrow, 
in blood life woman's seed sympathetic feelings for Martha and 
Mary's grief. 



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35.] Jesus wept. — Some three weeks after my conversion, when 
for three days I shed many tears, but when light above the bright- 
ness of the sun shone upon my soul mind (the light love of God 
in Christ Jesus) then spirit births impregnation of immortal spirit 
love light lit up my soul mind with new creature spirit birth 
being, pulsating love to God and man. No foes had I to punish 
them with eternal hell tortures ; no, no, all was love and forgive- 
ness, to the fullest, uttermost, infinite forgiveness of all who ever 
had done me wrong ; love filled me so full, there was no room for 
anything but what was in unity with love supreme to God, and to 
all that loved him as myself; and a missionary love that would 
have brought all Adam's race on earth to the love light fountain 
of spirit new creature life immortal, to drink of love's spirit river 
of life, that flows free and abundant for all. Rev. xxii. 17 : And 
the spirit and the bride say come. And let him that heareth say 
come. And him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let 
him take the water of life freely. Then, some three weeks after 
my spirit birth, the Lord in a robe of white appeared to me, about 
midnight, in the room where I slept, between my head and the 
window. Also the angel at the next window, who drew in a night 
vision, some four weeks previous, the Eden serpent or a monster 
black serpent of immense size, from the river of life, with a crook 
similar in appearance to a shepherd's crook, which he struck into 
the serpent, and drew it with ease over a large solid rock at the 
edge of the river of transparent, pure water, deep, wide, banks 
full, river moving peaceful without a ripple. I, without pre- 
vious knowledge, the moment the angel began to draw the serpent 
over the rock, found a rod in my handg, and lustity I struck 
the monster's body, crushing it to the rock at every rapid 
striking ; at last I battled the monster's awful head, striking more 
rapidly with my rod, and crushing it to mummy ; then the vision 
passed. The Lord's countenance light beamed gloriously and 
filled the room with heavenly, beatific light, his face features 
were beautiful above the power of earthly language to describe ; 
earthly beauty sinks into a ray tint infinitesimal ; I had raised my 
head in my right hand, resting on my elbow on my right side, 
solemnly viewing my heavenly holy visitors, until the Lord wept, 
when I spoke and said, What is the cause of thy tears? The 
tears fell over the transparent glorious beyond description beauti- 
ful cheeks, and as they fell on the white robe broke into frag- 
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440 JOHN XL 

increased in brilliancy in the brightest light, would be my faint 
illustration of the vision, still bright in memory as if last night 
it had occurred. He replied there would be a great falling away 
in the churches, or to like import, and I must bear his message 
to them. Like a fool I became frightened, and covered my head, 
as the Saviour, who I believe it was, spoke to me to send me, as 
I believe I am now doing in writing these Scripture connecting 
comments on the Scriptures. Lord please help me to develop thy 
Scripture truths ; without thy help I can do nothing that will 
avail in the salvation of my fellow mortals, who like me are 
wholly dependent on thee for life temporal and immortal (John 
xv. 5). Help me to abide in thy love, and please I pray thee and 
beseech, let thy Spirit abide in me, and guide, shield, and protect 
my new creature life immortal in thy love, and the love of thy spirit 
Father, and guide thou, please, all my thoughts, here recorded, to 
thy glory wholly, in time, and through the ceaseless ages of 
eternity life. After years of sorrow at not knowing what the 
Lord would have me do, after hearing the M. E. preacher Bond, 
in old John Street M. E. Church, New York City, the first church 
of the kind in America (whereof I was a member), in the forenoon 
of the Sabbath, that afternoon I opened the Scriptures and read 
Luke xx. 35-38. At the word " worthy" the scales fell from my 
eyes : They which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, 
and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are given in 
marriage : neither can they die any more : for they are equal 
unto the angels ; and are the children of God, being the children 
of the resurrection. (Acts ix. 18: And immediately there fell 
from his eyes as it had been scales ; and he received sight forth- 
with.) Thus it was with my soul mind perceptive spirit faculties, 
in my new spirit creature spirit born of spirit life immortal, I 
clearly saw, if that was so, then all men creeds in all the churches 
of earth are in error. But so fixed in my second nature, by the 
force of men creeds false teachings, that my Christian exemplary 
parents, and all the various church preachers embraced, and taught 
me from my earliest recollections to that Sabbath afternoon, that 
I after reading from Luke xx. 35 to 38 inclusive, three times, I 
remember rubbing my eyes, to see if I had not some optical illu- 
sion, but no, it plainly stated those accounted worthy of a resur- 
rection was Grod's children, and as like begets its like, his universal 
law, they must be spirit being, they were equal unto the angels. 
Why that was all flat contradiction of every church creed on 



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earth, out and out heresy ; it must be a misprint, a blunder of -the 
type-setters. Thus like every church member on earth that believes 
his creed, they thereby become blind fixtures, if a false man creed, 
poisoned by the devil's tare weed serpent, that persuaded Eve to 
break Grod's imperative statute law, in stealing and eating forbidden 
fruit of death. Deut. xxix. 4 : Yet the Lord hath not given you 
a heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this 
day. 1 Kings xxii. 23 : A lying spirit in the mouth of all these 
thy prophets (preachers). 25 : Behold thou shalt see in that 
day. 2 Kings vi. 17 : And Elisha prayed, and said, Lord, I pray 
thee open his eyes that he may see. 20 : Elisha said, Lord open 
the eyes of these men, that they may see. And the Lord opened 
their eyes. Job xxxiii. 28 : His life shall see the light (27). 
xlii. 1, 5 : I have heard of thee; but now mine eye seeth thee. 
(Job did as he said, xix. 26.) Ps. xlix. 12 : Man abideth not : 
he is like the beasts that perish. 14 : Death shall feed on them. 
15 : But G-od will redeem my soul from the power of the grave : 
for he shall receive me. Isa. vi. 10 : Lest they see. lii. 8 : Thy 
watchman shall see eye to eye, when the Lord shall bring again 
Zion (now dawning). Jer. vi. 16-21 ; Joel ii. 28 ; Acts ii. 17 ; 
Matt. v. 8 : Pure in heart shall see Grod. xiii. 14, 15 (Acts 
xxviii. 27), 16 ; xv. 31 ; Luke vii. 22 ; xvii. 23 ; John viii. 51 ; 
ix. 15, 39 ; Heb. xii. 14: Follow peace with all men, and holiness, 
without which no man shall see the Lord. 29 : For our Grod is 
a consuming fire (Ps. cxv. 5). I got a Polyglot Bible, that read 
the same. I blindly laid that misprint to the type-setter, it flatly 
contradicted all orthodox, and was heterodox contrary to the faith 
and doctrines of the true church I belonged to, was the inward 
leaven feeling of blind second nature, or habits which nature body 
life forms, hard to be separated from. But the truth of the 
Scriptures I discarded until I got my New Testament, published 
by the American Tract Society, 150 Nassau Street, New York, 
that T had purchased a few days before in Nassau Street. That 
reading the same as my other Bibles, I then let my church creeds 
of men fall, and like Balaam, Num. xxii. 31 : Then the Lord 
opened the eyes of Balaam (spirit intellect eyes), and he saw the 
angel of the Lord standing in the way, and his sword (spirit truth 
of the Scriptures) drawn in his hand : and he bowed his head, 
and fell flat on his face. 38 : Have I now any power at all to 
say anything ? the word that Grod putteth in my mouth, that I 
speak, xxiii. 10 : Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the 



442 JOHN XI. 

number of the fourth part of Israel ? let me die the death of the 
righteous, and let my last end be like his. Then I found hetero- 
dox was holding opinions repugnant to the doctrines of the Scrip- 
tures. I then commenced at Matthew and carefully read the 
New Testament Scriptures, with prayers to God daily for spiritual 
wisdom guidance. James i. 5 : If any of you lack wisdom, let 
him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth 
not ; and it shall be given him. I read not to prove orthodox, or 
any other sectarian political creed of men manufacture, or tradi- 
tions, but purely to learn what the Lord said : I took copious 
memorandum notes of different pointed texts of Scripture, with 
still a bias for our church creeds orthodox as was claimed, bat on 
many vital points touching the resurrection of the body, the im- 
mortality of the wicked, and eternal punishment, I could find 
nothing to prove such a creed ; and that orthodox creeds of men 
were heterodox to Scripture truths, plainly stated. And after 
reading in like manner the Old Testament Scriptures I found 
men creeds were in accord with the devil's falsehoods which 
seduced Eve, our first mother. Gren. iii. 4, 5 : Ye shall not surely 
die ; ye shall be as gods (immortal). (If you eat, sin, break 
God's statute imperative law in the day thou eatest thereof thou 
shalt surely die, Gren. ii. 17. Not immortal in life.) Ever since, 
when I have met a preacher of men creeds heterodox, which em- 
braces every sect on earth, more or less, I have proclaimed my 
message from the Lord, by quoting, and connecting as a chain, 
his Scripture truths as I find them translated and recorded truth- 
fully, with but few important mistranslations : and to reach all 
ministers of every persuasion and varied creeds of confused dis- 
cordant ideas, like the result of Babel spiritual towers to heaven, 
to reach there without spirit birth holiness (John iii. 5 ; Heb. 
xii. 14 ; Rom. viii. 9). Gen. xi. 4 : Let us build us a city (each 
separate creed wants a city of their own manufacture), and a 
tower (high church steeple, and a creed spirit tower), whose top 
may reach unto heaven ; and let us make us a name. Each different 
men creed tower has a different name. John x. 9 : I am the door: 
by me (Jesus) if any man enter in, he shall be saved. Lord I 
pray thee, please open the eyes of all that read these Day Thoughts 
to see light in thy light, of gospel spiritually discerned truths, as 
revealed in the Scriptures, and incline all thy spirit born children 
of God to believe thy truths, and have no other creed but the 
Scriptures, and be united in love to each other ; let each watch- 



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man preacher feel at home in any pulpit, or other place, whom 
thou Lord hast called and commissioned with thy Scripture truths, 
without any necessity of their passports being vised by men creed 
worshipers, who look only upon the parchment vised by men like 
themselves ; who see only the outward dust man, that perishes ; 
let every spirit born holy new creature bear on his person, if any 
outward equipment, holiness to the Lord, in small letters on an 
ephod, that all may know they feel called of the Lord to witness 
truthfully, and preach the gospel Scripture truths of salvation, 
telling mortals how to become immortals, by experimental spirit 
birth, John iii. 5. Eph. iv. 24 : And that ye put on the new 
man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness 
(holiness, the state of being holy ; purity, integrity of moral 
character ; freedom from sin ; sanctity). 1 John iii. 1 : Behold 
what manner of love the Father hath bestowed on us, that we 
should be called the sons of God (let that be the name, sons of 
God, children of light. 1 Thess. v. 5 : Ye are the children of 
light, and the children of the day : we are not of night, nor of 
darkness) : therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew 
him not. 6: Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not; whosoever 
sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him. 8: He that 
committeth sin is of the devil. 9 : Whosoever is born of God 
doth not commit sin ; for his seed remaineth in him (the spirit 
of Christ, Rom. viii. 9): and he cannot sin, because he is (spirit 
born) born of God. 10 : In this the children of God are mani- 
fest (a good name for all holy spirit born to call themselves children 
of God), and the children of the devil (children of death, Heb. 
ii. 14). iv. 5 : They are of the world : and the world heareth them, 
therefore speak they of the world (things to please people of the 
world in sin). 6 : We are of God : he that knoweth God (spirit 
born holy) heareth us ; he that is not of God heareth not us. 
Hereby know we the spirit of truth and the spirit of error. 

39.] Take ye aioay the stone. — Take away your sins and unbe- 
lief before your own soul mind, now covered with worldly sins, desires 
of nature life lusts and appetites for sin narcots and faithless belief 
in God's Scripture truths, or your soul mind life egg, like Laza- 
rus' s dead body, will rot with corruption death dissolution of nature 
elements, of which it is formed, will soon end thy flesh blood life's 
probation body, and to dust shalt thou return (Gen. iii. 19. 

40.] See the glory of God. — Glorious displays of his power and 



444 JOHN XII. 

42.] Because of the people. — His object of thus speaking to the 
Father in the hearing of the people was, that they might have this 
additional evidence that he and his Father were one ; and that in 
view of this new display of his life-giving power, they might be 
led to believe in him as the sent Saviour and deliverance of all 
spirit born holy immortal spirit love beings. 

43.] Lazarus, come forth. — As being assured of his Father's will 
power infinite. 

44.] Loose him. — This was addressed to the numerous Jews 
present, so that they should truthfully attest that it was Lazarus 
whom they had thus tied and buried four days previous : ocular 
demonstration of Christ's union with Grod. 

48.] Both our place and nation. — Which the Roman soldiers 
under Vespasian did afterwards do, but it was because they did first 
surrender to Roman soldiers to crucify their best friend. 

49.] Ye know nothing. — Nothing about the best way to prevent 
all the people believing Jesus to be the Messiah, and thus preserve 
the nation from ruin of our creed. 

50. j It is expedient. — He thought it better that Jesus should be 
put to death, than that their nation should be ruined, as the rulers 
said it would be if the people should follow Christ, who would 
close their ceremonial sacrifices, which his death on the cross ac- 
complished, and opened the spirit love birth. 

51.] He prophesied. — His motive was impure men creed 
policy, but what he would avoid by murder was measured in full 
force upon them and their nation. 

53.] From that day. — Adopting the counsel of Caiaphas, they 
sought to kill him. 

54.] The icilderness. — The rough and thinly settled parts of 
the country. 

55.] To purify themselves. — According to Jewish requirements 
(Lev. xxii. 1-6). 



Chapter XII. 



1.] Came to Bethany. — Christ, seeing that the time appointed 
for the closing of the sacrificial offerings, by their faith being ful- 
filled in the gift of his spirit begotten of woman's seed blood life. 



JOHN XII. 445 

Lev. xvii. 11 : For the life of the flesh is the blood ; and 1 have 
given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls 
(not bodies ; for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the 
soul). 

2.] A supper. — This supper was at Simon the leper's house, 
as appears by Matt. xxvi. 6 ; Mark xiv. 3. 

3.] Mary.— The sister of Martha (Luke x. 38, 39 ; John xi. 
2). Spikenard. — An aromatic plant of fine perfume, from which 
was made a precious ointment. 

6.] The bag. — The purse which contained their money, and 
from which they assisted the poor. 

11.] By reason of him. — His presence was a living proof of 
Jesus being Messiah. 

16.] Was glorified. — Had ascended into heaven. 

17.] Bare record. — They related what Jesus had done in raising 
Lazarus from the dead. 

19.] Ye prevail nothing. — Nothing to stop the people from be- 
lieving Jesus Messiah. 

23.] Should be glorified. — By his blood life sacrificial offering 
for the redemption and salvation of all spirit born holy soul mind 
believers of his Scripture truths, whose blood life heart will doors 
were opened to his knocking truths. 

24.] It abideth alone. — Remains but one grain ; its death is 
essential to its future life and increase ; it is spiritually resurrected 
as its body rots. 

25.] Loveth his life. — Nature blood flesh life poisoned with evil 
carnal death to spirit soul mind spirit birth, while its heart blood 
life will, as a closed door, excludes Christ's spirit love life immortal 
words of grace and salvation by way of believing Scripture truths of 
God, and believing them to the impregnating of the soul mind spirit 
egg, with spirit love life immortal, from God's word, spirit love 
truth ; for God only hath immortal life self existent to impart to 
his spirib born children, begot by his spirit word power (1 Tim. 
vi. 16 ; 2 Tim. i. 10). 

26.] Serve me. — Matt. iv. 10 ; Luke iv. 8 : Obey his commands 
of love especially. Where lam. — In heaven, where the Father of all 
spirits honors his spirit children with an eternal life home of 
beatific glory light life developments. 

27.] This hour. — The hour of withdrawing blood life body 
from its honored immortal life Father power, leaving infinite love 
to humiliate on and the spirit begotten body to suffer pain by way 

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of the death executioner power of the devil and his tare seed chil- 
dren and spirit of the world power, all in order to destroy the devil 
and his death power on all souls quickened in mind belief with his 
spirit word. 

28.] Glorify. — Thy name, fulfill thy promise in Eden that the 
woman's seed should bruise the serpent's head (Glen. iii. 15). And 
help me by thy promise word of victory to thy children to destroy 
the devil that hath the power of death of all mortal Adamic and 
nature life bodies, and as I lay down my blood life to redeem all 
who are spirit born of my sowing spirit love life immortal seed 
of God the father of all spirits holy. 

29.] Thundered. — The wicked, unregenerate, unspirit born, 
void of love, do not understand God's spirit language, nor his spi- 
ritually discerned Scriptures. 1 Cor. ii. 14. Others mid, an angel. 
— The speaking was words of love, and were all fulfilled. 

30.] For your sakes. — Came not because of me ; I had no need 
of this vocal answer, still and secretly mentally would have reached 
me equally as well, having a perfect, internal, and spiritual communi- 
cation with God ; but vocal answer was given to induce you to be- 
lieve in me, in my words of eternal truth, and that giveth spirit 
life immortal milt quickening spirit life seed to soul minds that 
receive and believe. 

31.] Now is the judgment of this world. — The crisis on which 
its destiny hangs of life and death of souls. The blood life nature 
carnal sin lust begotten flesh bodies were irrevocably sentenced to 
death, and to return back to nature elements. 

35.] The light. — Heavenly wisdom, spirit birth life truth light 
immortal, Messiah light, the source of all true spiritual knowledge. 
Walk. — While you have the means of knowledge of heavenly life im- 
mortal impartations to believers of spirit birth life of soul's intellects, 
that receive as truth the Scriptures. Improve them while you may, 
the present moments of light ; soon darkness and death will sweep 
the light of life spirit words from your minds, unless you receive 
the truth, and earnestly obey my commands of love. 

36.] Believe in the light. — Open your blood life heart will door, 
let your soul mind have life immortal spirit quickening love light 
from my truth words. You are now blinded ; your false men manu- 
factured creed has closed and barred inside your will door against 
my life light immortal truths. Receive and obey my instructions 
that you may be wise in spirit birth, new creature life light truth, 
and be instrumental in leading others to the light of gospel truths, 



JOHN XII. 447 

which are all spiritually discerned by all spirit born of spirit life 
immortal truth. 

37.] Believed not. — After all Christ wrought, raising the dead, 
opening the eyes of the blind, curing lepers, casting out unclean 
spirits, preaching the gospel to the poor, feeding thousands with a 
few loaves and fishes, and various other miracjes by sea and land, 
yet after all these ocular demonstrations that he was God's spirit 
begotten Son, still men creed traditions, in paid priest synagogues, 
blinded their eyes. 

38.] The saying. — Isa. liii. 1 : Who hath believed our report, 
and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed, fulfilled by their 
rejection of Christ. 

39.] They could not. — Because they would not believe Christ's 
truth, and leave their false men creed heresies. Isa, vi. 8. Also I 
heard a voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who 
will go for us ? Then said I, Here am I ; send me. 9 : And he 
said go, and tell this people, hear ye indeed, but understand not ; 
and see ye indeed, but perceive not. 10, 11 : Nature eyes cannot 
discern spirits nor spiritual things ; they would be useless in 
heaven, as all other parts of the human body. Glen, xxxvii. 4 : 
And when his brethren saw that their father Jacob loved Joseph 
more than all his brethren (as God the father of all spirit born 
holy loved Jesus, spirit begotten, more than any others on earth 
of Abraham, and David's descendants), they hated him, and could 
not speak peaceably unto him. John v. 44 : How can ye believe, 
which receive honor one of another, and seek not the honor that 
cometh from God only ? 

40.] He hath blinded their eyes. — Isa. xliv. 18 : For he hath 
shut their eyes that they cannot see, and their hearts (blood life) 
that they cannot understand. By presenting plainly his spirit 
birth, Christianity, the new spirit born creature, in Christ Jesus, 
in his love. 1 John iv. 16 : God is love; and he that dwelleth 
in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. 2 Cor. v. 17 ; Gal. vi. 
7, 8, 15 : For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any- 
thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. The great baptism 
with the Jews' circumcision made them a close or closed commu- 
nion; the impassable gulf between them and the poor Gentile 
Lazarus ; and the light of God's spirit birth new creature, love 
pulsating, spirit of Christ, and God, possessing. Rom. viii. 9 : 
Left the Jew's circumcised man in the dust eternal death. 1 Cor. 
xv. 44 : And raised the spirit born of God, new creature in its 



448 JOHN XII. 

spirit body. That spirit birth light of God, developed, made 
known by the Lord Jesus Christ, was so brilliant and consuming 
to their emblem allegorical ceremonial creed, and circumcision bap- 
tism, which Holy Ghost baptism wholly abrogated. Deut. xxix. 
4, 5 : Yet the Lord hath not given you a heart to perceive, and 
eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day. 

41.] His glory. — The glory of Christ, called by Isaiah the glory 
of the Lord (Isa. vi. 1). 

42.] Many believed on him. — Were convinced that he was 
Messiah. Did not confess him. — Did not openly declare their 
belief, which is necessary to spirit birth salvation holiness life 
immortal. 

44.] Not on me. — Not on me only, but also on my Father, and 
the Father of spirits holy immortal, and full of love holiness to 
the Lord. 

45.] Seeth me. — That is to say, knoweth me by the lively light 
quickening spirit birth, spirit life light immortal love ; love is my 
propelling power, and the same actuated him that sent me. 

46.] / am come a light into (lie world. — Gen: i. 3 : And God 
said, Let there be light, and there was light. That same God said, 
3, 15 : And I will put enmity between thee (the seducing evil 
devil death serpent), and the woman's seed ; and between thy seed 
(soul minds begotten by the devil, evil, unclean spirits. Matt, 
xiii. 38 : But the tares are the children of the wicked one. 39 : 
The enemy that sowed them is the devil ; the harvest is the end 
of the world, and the reapers are the angels. 40 : As therefore 
the tares are gathered and burned in the lire, so shall it be in th j 
end of the world) and her seed (Heb. ii. 14). 

48.] The word. — The Scriptures, the Bible truths of God's 
children, through whom as patriarchs, prophets, only begotten 
spirit word Son, and his disciples, God hath revealed his spirit 
word laws ; thus our Saviour clearly states, The word that I have 
spoken, truth words upon which hangs the life immortal new crea- 
ture spirit love begotten of God (1 John v. 18 ; 2 Cor. v. 17 
Gal. vi. 7, 8, 15 ; Matt. xiii. 37, 38 ; John iii. 5 ; xv. 5 ; Heb 
xii. 9). And the body and soul death. Gen. ii. 7, 17 ; iii. 19 
Eccles. xii. 7 ; Isa. v. 24 ; Obad. 16 ; Mai. iv. 1 ; Matt. iii. 12 
Ezek. xviii. 4, 20, 24, 27 : The soul that sinneth it shall die. 
Bev. xx. 11-15 ; xxi. 8 : Which is the second death ; first death 
of the blood life body ; second soul death ; all statute imperative 
laws of God. So plain that the wayfaring men (that can read or 



JOHN XIII. 449 

hear the Scripture statutes of God read), though .fools (in the 
eyes of the wicked), shall not err therein if spirit born and holy, 
for it is to them a plain holiness way. 

49.] Of myself. — Not of my own authority merely, but by the 
authority and appointment of my spirit truth eternal love, light, 
Father of spirits immortal (Heb. xii. 9). What I should say. — 
They then that assume to themselves the power to speak in the 
church of God, according to their own fancies, misconstruing 
parables, and taking part of the illustration word, and leaving its 
plain explanation connection words of truths, that all agree with 
God's statute fixed imperative laws, when united, take more 
upon themselves than is truth, which the Son of God himself 
could not and would not do. 

50.] I know. — I am positive that what I state is truth eternal 
(John viii. 14). That his. — That his word which I propound by 
his command, being received by a lively faith, is the only and most 
assured means to obtain everlasting life. Christ's words are spirit, 
and life impregnating soul mind seed, in all soul's spirit egg minds 
that receive, retain, and believe his spirit word truth (vi. 63). 
His commandment is life. — To them only who believe and obey, 
believers obedient, spirit born holy, thereby secure life everlasting. 
No other life on this earth can be everlasting. The negative is 
the reverse. 



Chapter XIII. 

1.] Bis own. — His disciples, all spirit born holy, new creatures 
in his love (2 Cor. v. 17 ; Gal. vi. 7, 8, 15). Those that abide 
in his love. John iii. 5; iv. 24; vi. 63; xi. 25, 26; xv. 5; 
Rom. viii. 8, 9 ; 1 Cor. xv. 44 ; 1 John i. 7 : If we walk in the 
light as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with the other, 
and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin 
(1 John ii. 6; iii. 2-12; iv. 16; v. 18). 

2.] Devil. — Evil, death power, evil temptations to do wickedly, 
comes of the devil's sin death leprosy, that unseen pervades the 
earth's atmosphere, as doth pestilence and putrid malignant body 
blood life death diseases, by way of his soul tare seeds. 

8.] If I wash thee not. — By spiritual washing of regeneration, 

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or rather (Rom. viii. 9), If you have not the spirit of Christ you 
are none of his. Matt, xxiii. 12 ; Whosoever shall exalt himself 
shall be abased, and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted. 
How our beloved Lord and master humbled himself to set the 
example of humility for his spirit born holy seed, which his spirit 
begotten atonement blood cleanses all spirit born holy spiritually. 

9.] Not my feet only.— Please cleanse my hands that they may 
do no evil, and my head, that it my soul mind impregnated by thy 
spirit truth, spirit word seed, and spirit born, may be cleansed by 
thy spirit atonement that I may never again think evil ; and that 
Satan may find no uncleanness in me in which his tare seeds of 
evil thoughts may grow and mature. 

10.] Is washed. — Is baptized with the Holy Ghost, and spirit 
born of God's spirit love, and remaineth in pure holy love's em- 
brace and pulsations pure and holy of God's immortal life light in 
Christ Jesus the spirit medium mediator vine, through which life's 
soul is immortalized (John xv. 5). Not all. — Judas was in 
Satan's power. 

14.] To wash. — That is to say, to humble yourselves to do all 
deeds of charity, and the most humble abject kinds of love service 
necessary to aid one another. 

15.] An example. — Of humility, condescension, and kindness. 
To inculcate the importance of love, instead of a domineering dic- 
tatorial lording it over the Lord's spiritual heritage, by assuming, 
or delegating to selfish proud titled officials in the church powers 
of coercion over God's children. We must always make a differ- 
ence between that which Christ hath done for our example which 
we should ever imitate, and that which he did as belonging to bis 
office of Messias and Saviour ; lest we through imitation of his 
kind treatment works do abuse them according to our own fancies, 
and neglect the most essential spirit birth regeneration which conies 
wholly^ from God by way of Christ's spirit seed from his immortal 
Father. The kind acts are but fruits of love, not its tree of life 
Christ's spirit ; all the ceremonial acts are of no value to save the 
soul unless spirit born of God in Christ and having the spirit of 
birth love (Rom. viii. 9). 

16.] Servant. — Cannot be a more important personage than the 
one who sent him, and can make no binding contract with the man 
that the sender would not confirm. He teaches affable humility. 

17.] These things. — The truths he had been teaching them, if 
they do as directed. 



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18.] The Scripture. — Ps. xli. 9 : Yea, mine own familiar friend 
in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his 
heel against me. I speak not of you all, I know whom I have 
chosen. It is a glorious provision of the gospel that old ship Zion 
has the Lord for the captain-commander and the final judge, and 
not vain corrupt man. 

20.] Whomsoever I send. — Not sends himself for a stipulated 
salary, nor is sent by conference of men, nor synods, nor pope, nor 
any other, but sent by the Lord, the commander-in-chief of the 
spirit born army of God, children of God, children of light, not 
servants of popes, cardinals, bishops, or any other mortal in assumed 
titles not of God, but of vain wicked selfish proud men. Having 
called his apostles messengers, or men sent, and having instructed 
them by his example to voluntary humility, he now authorizes 
and comforts them against the contempt which humility doth 
breed in the minds of the wicked. Receiveth me, and he that 
receiveth me receiveth him that sent me. 1 John iv. 16 : God 
is love ; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God 
in him. John x. 30 : I and my Father are one. Thus it is easy to 
reconcile the Scripture expressions with plain truth, if the connect- 
ing links of the thoughts spirit chain are united by the context. 
The sense of a passage of Scripture is often illustrated by the context. 

21.] He was troubled. — Through the restraining of his power, 
that could have hurled the devil and his tare seed powers into 
annihilation death with a word. 

23.] One of his disciples. — John, the writer of these words of 
the Lord Jesus Christ. 

25.] Saith unto him. — Speaking in a whisper no doubt, and the 
answer the same. 

26.] When he had dipped. — In the second part of the Jewish 
supper. He gave it. — He would not reveal Judas' treachery unto 
them all; instructing them thus to conceal private sins of our 
neighbors, unless public justice demands it. 

27.] Satan entered into him. — Made a spy traitor of Judas, 
tempting him with money. 

32.] Glorify him. — In his blood life sacrificial death and 
triumphant resurrection early in the morning of the third, or re- 
surrection day. It was an easy conquest, Satan quailed and fled, 
his lies fraud battery availed him nothing, and his guilt and crimes 
loomed up in horrid serpent horror before his vision in the resur- 
rection glory light of God's eternal life. 



452 JHN XIV. 

33.] Little children. — Matt, xviii. 3 : Except ye be converted, 
and become as little children, ye shall not enter the kingdom of 
heaven (xix. 13, 14 ; Gal. iv. 19 ; 1 John ii. 1 ; iv. 4 : v. 21). 
Spirit born (John iii. 5). New creatures (2 Cor. v. 17 ; Gal. 
vi. 7, 8, 15). As I said. — Not to exclude his disciples as the 
unbelieving Jews, but to tell them that they were not to die with 
his blood life sacrifice, their entrance to heaven was delayed. 

34.] New commandment. — Especial command of love. New 
as to its peculiar application to Christian fellowship unity in love 
to each other, as a power not easily broken or severed, like a tightly 
bound together bundle of many rods that cannot be broken while 
thus united together in perfect love holiness to the Lord ; but take 
a rod from the bundle, relying upon its own strength it is quickly 
broken ; and separate men creed church organizations void of that 
union love with each other, and with Christ in God's love power 
life immortal light, they are easily overthrown by Satan, and 
broken asunder from Scripture truth's love, and perish. 

35.] If ye have love one to another. — This is the inner soul mind's 
new creature spirit love pulsations breath. Love Jesus, never mind 
the cross, that cannot save you or do you any good. Love fulfills 
all the law and the prophets (Matt. xxii. 37 ; Mark xii. 30 ; Luke 
x. 27 ; 1 John iv. 16). 

36.] Follow me afterwards. — When you are spirit born, and 
spirit baptized, you shall be further strengthened, then (after me) 
you shall come to the cross. The cross and its tortures was Roman 
cruelty hate. 



Chapter XIV, 



1.] Ye believe in God. — The Jews believed in God but rejected 
the woman's seed spirit begotten of God's word in Eden (Gen. iii. 
15), because he came as an innocent lamb, for the sacrificial fulfill- 
ment of the promises of the Lord God could only thus be made. 
Matt. xxiv. 35 : Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my word 
shall not pass away. Believe also in me. — love divine, how humble 
is the dear Redeemer's request, Believe in me. Lord, I believe 
in thee with all my heart, soul, mind, might and strength, and 
that without thy opening of the door through thy self sacrifice of 



JOHN XIV. 453 

thy spirit begotten sinless holy blood life, in obedience to thy own 
spirit of the Lord God power love infinite volition, to lay it down 
and take up the mangled body by thy spirit power, and in union 
of love's infinite grace mercy of thy Father, that shall fill all the 
immortal life spirit children of God with grateful adoration of God's 
infinite love, extension of mercy's infinite grace sceptre to the re- 
demption of rebel atoms (viewed through Isaiah's telescope, xl, 
15, 17, in value counting the cost of redemption as infinitely less 
than nothing). But to us redeemed, Jesus is our friend Saviour 
that had pity on our lost and helpless state, and we will, he being 
our helper, praise him and his Father, the father of spirit life im- 
mortal, eternally. How hard it must have been to the feelings of 
the Lord Jesus Christ to find, after all his labor of love in trying 
to tell the Jews how to obtain salvation in a way that they would 
receive and believe the truth, and still even in the closing earth 
life mission, after miracles by sea and land of infinite power, to 
have to say, Believe in me. 

2.] In my Father s house. — The eternity of suns and systems 
of worlds that revolve around the throne of the supreme sovereign 
of the universe, as seen in the largest telescopes, gives a faint idea 
to the mortal mind of the magnitude and magnificence of the city 
of God. His spirit love eternal life home is not for me alone, but 
for all my believers likewise (Heb. ii. 10). I go. — I shall in a 
few days lay down the blood life sacrifice to fulfill all promises 
and prophecy, to the end that by my satisfaction I may obtain for 
you, through my mediatorial sacrifice, everlasting life ; and then I 
will rise again and enter into glory, to make intercession for you 
forever, and thereby receive you into heaven. And all who are 
spirit born of my gospel spirit word truth life immortal seed at 
body death. 

3.] Receive you. — At blood life body death. I am the resur- 
rection and life immortal of all spirit born holy, from their dead 
body that soon rots. 

6.] I am the way. — The way of access to God, and preparation 
for heaven. 

7.] From henceforth.- — 1 John iv. 16 : God is love ; and he 
that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. If the 
fault lie not in you, you may sufficiently know it in me, and by 
me, considering my person, works, words, and my doctrine com- 
mands to love one the other. I am God's love spirit sent. 

10.] I speak not of myself. — Matt. iii. 16: And he saw the 



454 JOHN XIV. 

Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him. The 
Father that dwelleth by a ray of love power immortal life in my 
soul mind. He the Lord God doeth the miracles, raising the 
dead, cleansing the lepers, giving sight to the blind, and strength 
to the lame, and stilling the tempest. 

11.] Believe me. — Spirit love life immortal emanates from the 
only self-existent Jehovah God, who only hath (native of himself) 
immortality, and dwelleth in the light which no mortal man can 
approach unto. His spirit word Son of creation power (John i. 
1-3). The Lord God spirit word Son of his spirit love Father 
(John iv. 24 ; 1 John iv. 16), who hath free access to his spirit 
Father that dwelleth in the light which no man can approach unto 
(1 Tim. vi. 16 ; Heb. xii. 9). The Father of spirits immortal in 
life holiness love. 

12.] He that believeth on me. — Mark xvi. 20: The Lord work- 
ing with them, and confirming the word with signs following. 
Acts ii. 41-43 : And many wonders and signs were done by the 
apostles. The saying of the Saviour is as applicable to faith be- 
lievers holy spirit born children of God now as it was then. 

13.] In my name. — In dependence upon, and for the purpose 
of honoring Christ Jesus. 

14.] Anything. — In accordance with his plainly declared will, 
and which would conduce to spirit birth of souls. 

15.] If ye love me. — To all that are spirit born holy (John 
iii. 5 ; 1 John iv. 16), this is an imperative law command to keep 
God's commandments. To the children of God this command is 
given ; not to children of men, or devils, or of this world, or of 
darkness void of love to the Saviour of spirit born holy. 

16.] Another. — The Holy Ghost, infinite mercy of God that 
imparts peace and joy to all spirit born holy children of God's light 
life immortal in Christ's love. 

17.] Spirit of truth. — The holy Spirit of holiness, and sanctifi- 
cation spirit birth of God's revealed Scripture's truths impartation 
to their soul minds when spirit born holy. The world. — Men 
who seek earthly things as their chief good see him not, they 
have not the aid of spirit truth light wisdom knowledge and un- 
derstanding to see truthfully spirit revealed truths ; their views 
of spirit birth holiness are erroneous, they do not feel their need 
of God's help here every moment. In you. — To enlighten their 
minds, purify their hearts, show them what they should do, and 
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18.] Come to you. — Blessed promise to the spirit born child of 
God buffeted by the devil's slandering nicknamers, and liar hounds, 
and sub rosa snakes in the grass, cheats, and demon tare children 
of the devil, annoying the peace loving Christian. I will come to 
your comfort aid, Amen. Jesus soul mind, the Holy Ghost comes 
in his spirit word promises, in peace love to all who seek God 
through him, his word received into the soul mind impregnates 
it with spirit love life immortal. 

19.] Ye see me. — Enjoy my presence, and after my resurrection 
ye shall see me, and if faithful spirit born holy at blood life death, 
all such shall see Christ, and be with his children spirit born holy 
and angels in glorified spirit bodies eternally. All others die on 
earth. 

20.] At that day. — Acts ii. 1-24 : When the holy Spirit should 
come, and they should enjoy the spiritual presence of the Redeemer 
mutual union of spirit love. 

21.] He it is that loveth me. — All that keep God's command- 
ments, no others, purely, fully, with will, soul and mind. 1 John 
iv. 16 : God is love ; such dwells in love. 

22.] Hoio is it. — Every one truly spirit born holy knows ex- 
perimentally, as well as that they have being, love, gratitude and 
adoration to God and all that love him truthfully, and a missionary 
love for sinners, and peace. 

23.] Keep my ivords. — Shall thereby become impregnated with 
his and his Father's immortal spirit life love, and intellectual mind 
light. 

24.] The word which ye hear is not mine. — These Day Thoughts 
are I numbly trust the promptings of the Lord who imparts these 
truths to my mind (John xv. 5). Without his aid I can do 
nothing of spirit life work. 

26.] All things. — Necessary to fit each for his spiritual outfit 
of love, truth and light. 

27.] My peace I give unto you. — Let no fear of coming or sur- 
rounding events mar your peace, trust wholly on my aid (Phil. 
iv. 7). 

28.] Greater than I. — His Father was the only Lord God, spirit 
word creation power Son, acting in unity with him (John i. 1-4 ; 
x. 30). His Father was the self-existent Jehovah almighty God, 
and sovereign supreme of the universe, through whose only self- 
existent immortal life light rays all life germinators of life receive 
their power to live, and move, and have a being ; none of which is 



456 JOHN XV. 

immortal unless begotten by his word power life immortal light 
(1 Tim. vi. 16 ; Heb. xii. 9). Father of spirits holy immortal 
(1 John iv. 16). All dwelt in unison of spirit love oneness, and 
in common as all immortal life is of one love fountain, but in power 
as in mortal's bucket drop to Christ's overflowing well in them of 
love and his free access to his Father's boundless eternity life ocean. 
God is love. 

29.] / have told you. — His blood life death and departure from 
them. That they might perceive after their fulfillment his fore- 
knowledge. 

30.] Prince of this world. — Has no interest in heavenly im- 
mortal life love, nor had or hath the devil any interest in Christ's 
atonement, save hatred opposition. The devil could not succeed 
in annihilating him, but in the end he, Christ, will annihilate the 
devil death (Heb. ii. 14 ; 1 Cor. xv. 26). 

31.] That the ivorld may know. — When my blood life body 
dies. I obey his command to give or lay down my blood life pure 
for my believers, and spirit born holy children of Grod, and resur- 
rection in me, and life eternal (John xviii. 1). He went thence 
over the brook Cedron. 



Chapter XV. 



1.] I am. — This similitude shows that all Adam's race by 
nature birth have no connecting tie to spirit life immortal. 1 Tim. 
vi. 16 : Grod only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which 
no man can approach unto. 2 Tim. i. 10 : Now made manifest 
by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished 
death (to all spirit born holy), and hath brought life and immor- 
tality to light through the gospel. The true vine. — Figuratively, 
and spiritually, the only communicating spirit vine, with the only 
self-existent spirit Grod, who only of himself without impartation 
from another hath immortal life, and dwelleth self-existent spirit 
life light. He is the keeper of the spirit life immortal vineyard. 
Mortals of nature birth, fed on nature food, soon die, and can by 
no means of their earthy being become immortal, or bring forth 
any spirit fruit life immortal, without partaking of Christ's spirit 



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love, life immortal nature seed, sown by him. Matt. xiii. 37, 38 ; 
John iii. 5 ; Rom. viii. 9). Engrafted by faith into Christ's spirit 
life eternal, by the spirit of new birth. Christ being in full com- 
munion with life's spirit love immortal life fountain, as a grape- 
vine is in the ground. I am the vine spirit life through which 
all partakers of immortal spirit life receive their spirit life light 
Jove fruit maturing, spirit wine juice from the river of eternal life. 
And my Father he is the first author of all this order of earth's 
Adamic grace spirit life order, by way of soul mind impregnation 
belief of his spirit truth life eternal spirit love seed. 

2.] Every branch. — Professed disciple. Beareth not fruit. — 
Of a holy life without sin. 1 John iii. 8 : He that committeth sin 
is of the devil. 9 : Whosoever is born of God doth not commit 
sin. Purgeth it, pruneth, purifieth. Dead branches are sin poi- 
soned, or, death soul mind's tare seed worm, that dies not with the 
nature body probation blood life death, but lives an unclean spirit 
tare devil, seeking rest and finding none, these, not like Darwin's 
wild theory of progress, from a mussel to a mortal man, but each 
species produce their own kind. The unclean spirits seek for rest 
in the various animate life creatures of earth, but find none ; they 
in carnivorous animals excite them to prey on defenseless life, as 
did their father the devil in the seducing serpent in Eden on Eve. 
And the heathen world made an image ring of the serpent, to 
represent immortal life, promised Eve by their false men creed 
tare seed father of incorrigible wicked tare seed begotten by the 
devil father of lies. Who with his unclean spirit children perish 
in God's consuming justice fire at the close of time (Matt. xiii. 
38-40 ; Heb. ii. 14). Men creeds to-day teaching immortal life 
to the incorrigible wicked are like the heathen serpent worshipers, 
that put the serpent's head and tail together and form a ring 
thereby of its body, as emblems of their eternal life. God said 
sinners incorrigible should d*ie. Satan taught, as his tare seed 
worshipers, popes, cardinals, bishops, and D.D.'s, now teach, that 
the wicked are immortal ; when eternal life can only come from 
God's immortality ; every exterior member of the church which 
by external profession seems to be engrafted in me, though in 
spirit birth truth they are not (Rom. xi. 17, 20 ; 2 Pet. i. 8). 

3.] Glean. — The words of spirit life truths I have uttered have 

driven from your minds nature's darkness and evil carnal unclean 

spirit false creed tare seed. Through the word. — By my word, 

accompanied with the efficacy of my spirit (John xvii. 17 ; Eph. 

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v. 26 ; 1 Pet. i. 22). And because faith is begotten by the word 
which purifieth the heart (Acts xv. 9 ; John vi. 63 ; xiii. 10). 

4.] Abide in me. — Persevere in faith, continue to believe in 
me, to obey my commands, and depend on me for all needed good, 
that I may communicate my spirit life. 

5.] Much fruit. — Conversion of souls through your truths, in- 
crease in holiness, virtue, purity, and spirit love birth's immortal 
life maturity. Without me. — Being severed and cut off from my com- 
munion. Do nothing. — In spiritual works of truth, truly full of spirit 
birth life love, immortal life light, good, holy pure from God, will 
not flow from me the Mediator spirit vine to you, unless you abide 
in my love. 

6.] Cost forth as a branch. — When a branch limb is severed 
from a vine or tree, it ceases forever to live, bear fruit, or be of 
any value, and to remove them from being a nuisance, they are 
burned in the fire as a brush-heap ; never again is such a broken- 
off branch resuscitated with resurrection, or any other life ; a full 
description of the dead mortal body, and soul mind bearing intel- 
lectual thoughts of the spirit holiness impress or communication 
imparted by Christ, the spirit intellect mind impregnator, with 
spirit birth seed spirit love from God the Father of immortal spirit 
beings holy, while they abide in Christ's love communication with 
his Father, the husbandman proprietor, and owner, and only foun- 
tain of immortal holy spirit life, and of all attributes and powers 
in the universe that are infinite. The human body dead soon rots 
and returns to earth elements, and to remove the stench, poor 
mortals if popes, kings, queens, or any other mortal of the lowest 
or highest grade, rich or poor, they are all on a level after death, 
and soon rot and become a nuisance to the living, and are buried 
out of sight and return like the vine branch or tree limb or tree 
body ; once all dead, nothing of life remains in them ; they rot 
as vegetation dung upon the earth. If a man abide not in Christ 
by living faith. 

7.] My words abide. — Clearly showing that by faith belief of 
Christ's words we who are spirit born are united in love to Christ 
and his Father. It shall be done. — Your faith prayers offered in 
accord with the will of God shall be answered. 

8.] Herein. — The good works fruits of righteousness, not self- 
ishness desiring self-glory, titles, and bubble effervescent vanity 
applause of mortals, whom their prompter can in a brief time after 
cause to cry in regard to the same man, or being, Crucify him. 



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9.] So have I. — The love which God beareth to his righteous 
spirit born children is grounded upon that love he bears unto his 
spirit begotten Son Jesus Christ. Continue ye in my love. — By 
continuing to obey my commands, especially of love. 

10.] Keep my. — The keeping of God's commandments is a 
testimony of the love we bear unto him. 

11.] That my. — That you may have a perpetual and full feel- 
ing of my grace, in consolation of spirit, without interruption or 
diminution. 

12.] As I have loved you. — That ye love one another. Matt, 
v. 44 : Love your enemies, xxii. 37 : Jesus said unto them, Thou 
shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart (blood life will 
subdued by spirit birth's superior spirit life power), and with all 
thy soul, and with all thy mind. Intellectual spirit born right- 
eousness love. 39 : Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. 40 : 
On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. 

14.] Ye are. — This friendship shall be known to be true by the 
effects of a conformity of wills, love, and obedience to my 
commands. 

15.] All things that I have heard of my Father. — His com- 
mands directing me in reference to you. / call you not servants. — 
But friends, if they obey him. 

16.] Ye have not chosen me. — They had not first chosen him, 
but he had chosen them, and their choice of him and love was the 
fruits of his choice and love to them. Ordained you. — Set you 
apart to the work to which I have called you to persevere in bear- 
ing good fruits, durable to yourselves, fit to keep unto eternal life. 
In my name. — Good works is the fruits of righteousness, but all our 
strength in prayer is through Christ's merits alone. He is our 
only telegraph wire that reaches to God, our only spirit food vine. 

19.] The world hateth you. — Governed by the principles and 
maxims of worldly men, and by carnal nature's sin lust birth (Ps. 
li. 5) rebels against God's law, sentenced to death (Gen. iii. 19; 
Eccles. xii. 7 ; Isa. v. 24 ; Dan. xii. 2 ; Mai. iv. 1 ; Matt. iii. 12 ; 
Bom. ix. 22). Vessels of wrath fitted to destruction. By their 
own wickedness ; and nothing is more like their prompter and 
leader, their tare seed liar father the devil (John viii. 44), than 
hating God's children on earth, that are the salt that saves the 
earth from destruction by fire like Sodom and Gomorrah, feeble as 
they are, and unworthy of God's infinite grace love manifest in 
Jesus' sacrificial offering. 



460 JOHN XVI. 

20.] Yours also. — It is one Scripture word, and one doctrine. 
Scriptures are the only creed of the righteous spirit born children 
of God. He means this of their ministry, who are called by him 
to preach Scripture truths ; not their own, or other men's tradi- 
tion creeds that oppose God's statute laws. 

21.] They know not. — By spirit birth holiness love life. They 
have not and will not receive any lively knowledge of God, 
in his appointed way, concerning the mystery of redemption by 
his son and spirit birth, new creature spirit life. 

22.] They had not. — To such a degree sinned, because they 
would not have rejected and sinned against such great light, and 
miraculous ocular demonstrations of truth that Christ Jesus was 
the promised Messiah ; their sin otherwise might seem the result 
of carnal nature, blindness, ignorance. 

23.] Hateth me. — Such hate Christ as through their men creed 
hypocrisy. 

24.] None other man. — Christ, both by words and works, showed 
that God had sent him to be a Saviour of all who accepted his 
salvation terms. 

25.] Without a cause. — When Christ or his spirit born seed of 
God's love hold up God's Scripture truths of spirit birth holiness 
salvation before any class or sect on earth, and they will not re- 
ceive his truth message from God, because they like the drunkard 
from habit love their men tradition falsehood creeds of men better 
than God. 

26.] Sjnrit of truth. — He shall testify through sent of God to 
the truth and verity of the Scriptures, and the integrity and 
divinity of Christ's character. From the Father. — I am the 
mediator. 

27.] Ye also. — The apostles. From the beginning. — Of his 
public ministry. 



Chapter XVI. 



1.] Offended. — Apostatise or commit sin to avoid suffering for 
truth. 

2.] Out of the synagogues. — Men creed churches will treat you 
and all children of God spirit born holy believers of Scripture 
truths as heretics, and would, were they not restrained by God 



JOHN XVI. 461 

and common self protection law, even now if in power, be tempted 
by their devil hatred of Scripture truths that contradict their creeds 
to kill their opponents, which they did do for centuries, under 
popish inquisition. 

3.] These things. — Works of their father the devil death hater 
of truth light. 

4.] I was with you. — It was not then, as it had been previously, 
I preserved you by my presence, and put away all dangers, and 
never placed you alone upon any great combats and trials, such as 
await you after my departure. 

5.] None of you. — Use your soul mind reason, your grief at 
this time overcomes poor blood life nature with sorrow in contem- 
plating my leaving you in this world with wicked men, women, 
and children, and devils and tare seed children of the devil, unclean 
spirits, and all the powers of darkness, death, and evil sins, and 
carnal self willed fallen sin nature with natural inclinations to evil 
if unrestrained by reason, and reasons cutoff; you should improve 
the time in asking me for instructions. 

7.] If I go not away. — If I fulfill not the love sacrifice redemp- 
tion of spirit born soul minds, and open not through the death 
sentence pronounced upon Adam and Eve and all their race in 
Eden (Gen. iii. 19), no Comforter can come from heaven's spirit 
God of love, light, and life immortal ; I am the only being that, 
through my blood life death can open a door through my sacrifice 
holy spirit begotten through the devil death, whom your ancestors 
obeyed in the garden of Eden, and partook of sin death forbidden 
lust sin fruit, and thereby cut off all retreat, and closed every 
avenue of escape save one, and that is through me by way of the 
word of the Lord God that begot me (Gen. iii. 15), to bruise the 
serpent's head, the devil death. Heb. ii. 14 : Forasmuch then as 
the children (spirit born of God in Christ's love seed, Matt. xiii. 
37, 38 ; John iii. 5. New creatures (2 Cor. v. 17 ; Gal. vi. 7, 8, 
15) are partakers of flesh and blood, he (Christ Jesus) also himself 
likewise took part of the same (woman's seed, Gen. iii. 15). That 
through death (of woman's seed blood life holy) he might destroy 
him that had the power of death (of body and soul of Adam's race 
who sinned, Ezek. xviii. 4), that is the devil. John xi. 25, 26 : I 
am the resurrection and the life ; he that believeth, and is spirit 
born of God (1 John iii. 8-10 ; iv. 16 ; v. 18), shall never die. Their 
blood life bodies die, as doth all nature life. The Egyptian mummies 
are the product of false creeds of men of this world, blind as to 

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spirit life and priestly pampering to nature body worship ; it is 
nature's blood life attachment to its own body, placed there in 
creation to prevent suicide or self destruction. 

8.] Reprove. — By convincing truth light on the mind, reprove 
their former life actions of erroneous false suicidal rebellion against 
God's just laws. 

9.] Of sin. — Especially the sin of rejecting the Saviour, with- 
out whom sin reigns in the world ; spirit life eternal alone can be- 
get immortal beings, like begets its like is God's infallible statute 
law of the universe ; mortals cannot beget immortals, it contradicts 
itself. Heaven's spirit Father only hath immortal life to bestow 
(Heb. xii. 9). 

10.] See me no more. — Not in a blood life body after the cruci- 
fixion. Mark xiv. 24 : This is my blood (typical of his love spirit 
life eternal) of the New Testament, which is shed for many, all 
spirit born holy. 2 Cor. v. 16 : Wherefore henceforth know we 
no man after the flesh ; yea, though we have known Christ after 
the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more. The flesh 
blood life of Christ Jesus like all nature earth life is the products 
of earth in obedience to God's command, and returns to its earth 
elements (Gen. iii. 19). Eccles. xii. 7 : Then shall the dust return 
to earth as it was, and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. 

11.] Of judgment. — That as Satan the god of this world, or 
the essence god of hatred, who as devil death executioner and 
tempter, seduces and destroys virtue, and all earth life blood, as a 
vampire he poisons with his arsenic lies breath, being an unclean 
death spirit power (Heb. ii. 14). 

12.] Many tilings. — These things are revealed in the gospel 
doctrines of the apostles, especially by Paul, the last called apostle 
of the Gentile dispensation. Cannot bear them. — Comprehend 
spirit birth life beyond the grave, without nature's blood life body, 
nor gather the fruit of them, by reason of the grossness of your 
understanding and the weakness of your faith, being blinded by 
the prince of this world in Jew men creeds. 

13.] Into all truth. — He shall give you a living light apprehen- 
sion of the life spirit birth that is immortal, and of the glory and 
spiritual estate of my kingdom in this world, which hitherto you 
could not apprehend. Or he shall inspire you with the knowledge 
of many future things by the spirit of prophecy, all that would be 
needful to a full revelation of the gospel truth. That shall he 
speak. — He would communicate the will of the Father and the Snn 



JOHN XVI. 463 

as far and as fast as the people of earth were capable of receiving 
and comprehending spirit birth life surroundings, and heavenly 
life immortal, being by nature wholly carnal they were not capa- 
ble without experimental soul mind spirit birth to comprehend 
spiritual things, which would be given as God's glory saw best. 

14.] He shall glorify me. — All that I have done in redemption 
humiliation shall then produce its glorious effect in spirit birth 
salvation, and obtain its end, immortal life to truth believers through 
the merits of my sacrifice of body blood life (Num. xxxv. 83). 
Lev. xvii. 11 : For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have 
given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls, 
for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul. No 
atonement is or ever was made for the flesh body, or was ever pos- 
sible or desirable by infinite wisdom. John iii. 5 : Except a man 
be born of the spirit (which the body cannot be begotten again) 
he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 6 : That which is born 
of the flesh is flesh (1 Cor. xv. 50, flesh and blood cannot inherit 
the kingdom of God), and that which is born of the spirit is spirit. 
New creature spirit being pulsating spirit life immortal love of 
God, who only hath immortality (1 Tim. vi. 16). 1 John iii. 8— 
10 ; iv. 16 : God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth 
in God, and God in him (v. 18 ; 2 Cor. v. 17 ; Gal. vi. 5). John 
vi. 63 : It is the spirit that quickeneth, the flesh profiteth nothing. 
The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. 
68 : Thou hast the words of eternal life (Ezek. xviii. 4). 

15.] Are mine. — That is the spirit God, the Father of spirits 
immortal holy (Heb. xii. 9), the Father of the spirit word crea- 
tion power spirit Son. John i. 2 : The same was in the beginning 
with God, and God was his spirit word creation power begotten 
by his word ; and he was called the spirit word Son of God, the 
Father of spirits immortal holy, who only hath in himself self-exist- 
ent life eternal, and omnipotent, and infinite in all his attributes 
consistent with his holiness. The spirit word creation power Son 
of almighty God, sovereign supreme of the universe, was called the 
Lord God, and his word promise son (Gen. iii. 15) was the only 
spirit begotten son of God of woman's seed egg of nature life, Jesus, 
whose spirit begotten soul mind is the Holy Ghost. All others 
are begotten of soufs spirit egg mind, through his mediation and 
spirit word on earth. Begetting power life immortal from almighty 
God, who only hath immortality self-existent (1 Tim. vi. 16), dwell- 
ing in the light which no man can approach unto ; whom no man 



464 JOHN XVI. 

hath seen, nor can see. His spirit word Son of creation power 
(John i. 2) was in the beginning (of creation power) with almighty 
God, his spirit Father (John iv. 24). He (John i. 10) was in the 
world (led Israel, clothed a portion of his spirit power life in human 
form to converse with Moses, Aaron, Abraham, Job, Gideon, and 
others at sundry times, and was in like power in the spirit word 
power promise (Gen. iii. 15), that begot of the woman's seed egg of* 
nature life in the virgin Mary the sacrifice body holy without sin, 
the lamb of God. Johni. 10, 19 (Rev. vii. 10 ; xvii. 14 ; xxii.1,2): 
He was in the world, and the world was made by him (the Lord 
God), and the world (unspirit born) knew him not, 12 : But as 
many as received him (in Christ Jesus), to them gave he power to 
become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name. 
13 : Which were born, not of blood (nature life sin lust, Ps. li. 5), 
nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God, 
spirit begot and spirit born (1 John v. 18). 

16.] Shall not see me. — Not corporally, and in ordinary conver- 
sations. And again. — In the corporal body, void of blood, or 
blood life, which he gave for atonement of souls spirit born holy, 
filled and sustained by spirit life immortal from God the Father of 
spirits ; not dead rotten flesh bodies made of perishable vegetation 
life products of earth, or worse dead bodies of animate life. 

18.] We. cannot tell. — The disciples showed that they were as 
yet very ignorant of spirit birth life immortal of God, and had 
need of experimental spirit birth, and further instruction. Thus 
ignorant are all Adam's sin lust race, by nature blood life knowl- 
edge wisdom of the schools of earth. 

20.] Weep and lament — At his blood life sacrificial death 
offering. The world, wicked men tare seed children of the devil, 
in and out of the Jewish man creed church or synagogue, will 
with devils rejoice at their conquest. Turned into joy. — B} T his 
resurrection, triumphant conquest of the devil's death power over 
his woman's seed body ; as at blood life death, when his spirit life 
holy sent the devil death, and all his vast broad way army of un- 
clean spirits, with lightning speed from his presence, as the morning 
sun disperses darkness from earth. Thus an easy conquest was 
had on the third day morning. 

24.] Asked nothing in my name. — They had not been accus- 
tomed before this to pray in the name of Christ ; but after that 
time they would be, and for his sake God would bestow whatever 
they needed which they asked for, which was in accordance with 



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God's will, as revealed especially in his love restrictions, requiring 
love to him supreme, and to our neighbors, especially in forgiving 
their trespasses against us. Matt. vi. 15 : If ye forgive not men 
their trespasses (trespass, any injury or offense done to another) ; 
our trespasses against God are to transgress voluntarily any divine 
law or command of God, as found in the Scriptures ; or to violate 
any known rule of duty. Eph. ii. 1 : And you hath he quick- 
ened, who were dead in trespasses and sins : and they desire in 
their men creeds that their neighbors should roast in endless fire, 
no mercy death. 

25.] In proverbs. — Or parables, somewhat obscurely, and in 
such manner that they required him to explain the parables, not 
understanding their meaning. The time cometh. — After his resur- 
rection, and the gift of the Holy Ghost infinite mercy spirit of God 
that restrains the justice fire sword of God from consuming in a 
moment the sinners of earth when they sin to repentance prolon- 
gation of life until its probation time ends. Plainly. — Spirit birth 
experimental religion ; he would by his spirit, when freed from 
the nature body, more plainly instruct them in spirit life. 

30.] By this ive believe. — 26 : I will pray the Father for you ; 
he was then clearly stating his mediator Messiahship, possessing 
spirit birth alliance to God his father, whose spirit word powers 
were fully developing in him ; and by woman's seed blood life 
alliance he was our only possible friend with power sufficient to 
crush and destroy the devil death (Heb. ii. 14 ; Gen. iii. 15). 
Our lion foe, the devil, was in the serpent head to be bruised. 

31.] Do ye now believe. — They, like thousands of church mem- 
bers, say they believe when they read plain 'declarations of Scrip- 
ture they thus feel ; but none can understand heavenly truths 
fully without experimental spirit new creature life birth (Matt. 
xiii. 37, 38 ; John iii. 5 ; 2 Cor. v. 17 ; Gal. vi. 7, 8, 15 ; 1 Cor. 
ii. 14-16). Because they are spiritually discerned. 

32.] The Father is with me. — Like Abraham with Isaac to make 
the sacrifice, notwithstanding the strong faith in Christ which they 
had expressed, they would soon desert him, and return to their 
homes or places of abode. And so far as human friends were con- 
cerned, he would be left alone, clearly proving that all our strength 
to oppose the powers of the devil death, the hallucinations and 
temptations of the world and carnal nature, comes wholly from the 
Lord. John xv. 5 : Without me ye can do nothing. Isa. ii. 11 : 
And the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day. lxiii. 3 : I have 



466 JOHN XVII. 

trodden the winepress alone ; and of the people there was none 
with me. 4 : The year of my redeemed is come. 5 : And I 
looked, and there was none to help ; and I wondered there was 
none to uphold. All Adam's race was utterly helpless to extricate 
themselves or aid Christ in any way to save them from the devil 
death powers. Therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto 
me. 16 : Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be 
ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us (Gentiles) not. Thou, 
Lord, art our father, our redeemer, thy name is from everlast- 
ing. 

33.] In me. — Peace, rest of spirit born new creature life and 
secureness, while you rely wholly upon me for help, and abide in 
my and my Father's love. In the world of the wicked of earth, the 
devil's tare seed liars and nicttnamers, who called Christ Beelze- 
bub, will annoy and perplex, persecute, malign, and imprison, and 
murder some of you, my disciples, for doing them good, telling 
them how to get to heaven. Blood life is short at best, and 
heaven's joys await you at blood life death. / have overcome. — 
I, head of my spirit birth holy church, all spirit born new creatures 
in my love (2 Cor. v. 17) have for them overcome what is mortal 
in the devil's kingdom ; your salvation is now out of danger, follow 
on courageously, your victory is sure in me. 



Chapter XVII. 



1.] Glorify thy Son. — The glory of the Saviour was his triumph- 
ant overthrow of the devil death, and at his consummation of 
laying down his blood life body blood as a sacrifice for the sins of 
all spirit born of his spirit seed holy (Matt. xiii. 37, 38 ; John iii. 
5 ; 2 Cor. v. 17 ; Gal. vi. 15). New creature (Rom. viii. 9) having 
his spirit love resurrection life power. This glory triumph was 
further consummated in the spirit resurrection of the body of Jesus 
without blood life, which he had given for redemption (Lev. xvii. 
11) ; for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul. 
No atonement was or ever will or can be made for the blood 
life body. 

2.] Power. — To give eternal life to those who receive into their 
soul minds, unto full faith belief, his spirit life words of life im- 



JOHN XVII. 4C7 

mortal truth love light from God (Matt. xiii. 37, 38). John iii. 
5 ; vi. 63 ; xi. 25, 26 : I am the resurrection and the life ; who- 
soever liveth (a spirit birth,, spirit new creature life of love) and 
believeth in me shall never die. 

3.] That they might knoiv. — By experimental birth knowledge 
(John iii. 5). That they may enjoy thee by living spirit born 
love pulsating holy faith, in this blood life tenement of dust, and 
with beatific glory ineffable sight in thy heavenly eternal life spirit 
mansion, when blood life dies and frees the new creature love life 
spirit, to be escorted by guardian angels to their heavenly glory 
home of spirit being life immortal. TM only true God. — Or to 
reveal that in granting salvation in the Father ought to be ap- 
prehended the absolute sovereign majesty of the Deity ; and in 
the Son the voluntary and subalternate office of mediator, John 
xiv. 28. 

4.] Glorified thee. — That is, honored thee by a perfect obedi- 
ence, in declaring thy grace spirit birth love proclamation, which 
as Redeemer and Saviour requires that my spirit life returns to 
thee, and that I give my woman's seed blood life spirit begotten 
by thy promise word (Gen. iii. 15), that I may open a door from 
earth to heaven, through my mediatorial offering, through which 
all spirit born holy spirit souls new creatures in my love and thine 
may safely pass, when I have destroyed the devil's death power 
over such by passing through his death dominions and conquer- 
ing him and bruising his serpent head (Heb. ii. 14). 

5.] Glory which I had with thee. — In the spirit word of life ; 
Christ's spirit life alone, without any of the woman's seed blood 
life body productions, which blood life he was about to give for 
the redemption of spirit born believers. 

6. J Manifested thy name. — Proclaimed thy grace conditions by 
way of spirit birth (John iii. 5). And that thou art a spirit ; and 
that such as would desire immortal spirit life must seek God 
through Christ the mediator, who has full power to pardon, and 
is the only resurrection and spirit life medium of eternal existence. 

7.] Now. — I have caused them to know by my gospel spirit birth 
love life immortal revelation, and that all the salvation which they 
have in and from me is of thy sovereign favor, and that all the 
glory therefore is due to thee as the first cause and author. 1 
Cor. i. 30 : Of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made 
unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemp- 
tion. 20 : That no flesh should glory in his presence. The flesh 



468 JOHN XVII. 

dust Adam seed are all condemned to death and dust. Gen. ii. 7 : 
And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground. 1 Cor. 
xv. 47 : The first man is of the earth earthy. The second (spirit 
generator of soul minds, imparting spirit life of God immortal new 
creature spirit being), the second man is the Lord from heaven 
(48, 49). Gen. iii. 19 (Adam and his seed sentenced to death) : 
Dust thou art and unto dust shalt thou return (Ezek. xviii. 4, 
20, 24, 27). 

8.] I have given unto them the words which thougavest me. — John 
vi. 63 : It is the spirit that quickeneth ; the flesh profiteth nothing 
(Adam's flesh life was an utter failure, because of his sin, which 
severed him and his race from God, who only hath immortal life ; 
all others not in union love obedience to him cease soon to exist). 
The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life 
eternal, not Adamic life. 

9.] I pray for them. — All spirit born holy disciples of my love 
spirit seed of God (Matt. xiii. 37, 38 ; John iii. 5). I pray not 
for the world. — Adam's carnal sin lust race, unspirit born, unholy, 
sentenced to death ; and Satan and his tare seed children, unclean 
spirits, and all others whereof the devil death is the head. Them 
which thou hast given me. — They are thine, being spirit born of thy 
promise love word. I pray thee that thou wouldst continue thy 
co-operation with me by thy sovereign power, to the accomplish- 
ment of their salvation. 

10.] I am glorified in them. — By their reception of me as their 
Saviour, and committing themselves and all their interests to my 
guidance and disposal. 

11.] Through thine own name. — 1 John iv. 16: God is love ; 
and they that dwell in love dwell in God, and God in them. No 
more in the world. — In a nature woman's seed blood life body, 
soon to be given as a sacrifice for many ; all spirit born holy ; 
manifest thyself to them as their shield and defense, and exceed- 
ing great reward if they continue in thy love, obedient. 

12.] / kept them in thy name. — By the manifestation of thy 
love character, and with my love instructions and example. Son 
of perdition. — Judas, whose ruin was foretold in the Scripture 
truths eternal (Ps. cix. 8). 

13.] Fulfilled. — Made perfect and eternal. I speak. — I make 
this prayer unto thee in their presence, to give them a certain and 
perfect comfort, and rest of spirit, because of the certainty which 
they ought to conceive of thy hearing me. 



JOHN XVII. 469 

14.] / have given them thy word. — John vi. 63 : The words I 
speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life (Matt. xiii. 37, 
38 ; John iii. 5), spirit birth of the word seed of spirit love life 
immortal from God. Hated. — John iii. 19 ; And this is the con- 
demnation, that light has come into the world (spirit life immortal 
love light, wisdom), and men loved darkness rather than light, 
because their deeds were evil. Thus all Christians bearing gospel 
light are hated and slandered. 

15.] From the evil. — From the devil's great power, and the 
world's allurements. 

16.] They are not of the world. — Matt. xiii. 37, 38 ; John iii. 
5 ; 2 Cor. v. 17 : Therefore if any man be in Christ he is a new 
creature, spirit born of God. 1 John iii. 9 : Whosoever is born 
of God doth not commit sin ; for his seed remaineth in him, and 
he cannot sin because he is born of God. Gal. vi. 7, 8, 15 ; Be 
not deceived ; God is not mocked (with flesh sin lust body resur- 
rections of the rotten bodies of the dead), for whatsoever a man 
soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh 
shall of the flesh reap corruption (rotten body and extinct soul 
intellect light, Ezek. xviii. 4). But he that soweth to the spirit 
shall of the spirit reap life everlasting. For in Christ Jesus 
neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but a 
new creature. 

17.] Thy word is truth. — The Scriptures are truth revelations of 
spirit life immortal, and how to obtain spirit birth life eternal, and 
that all earth life soon dies, and ends eternally to exist in any form ; 
sanctify them through thy (Scripture) truth., Men creeds false are 
not God's truth, nor sanctification, which is to cleanse from false- 
hood and all sin's corruptions ; to purify from sin, to make holy by 
detaching the affections from the world and its defilements, and ex- 
alting them to a supreme love to God. To make them free from guilt ; 
to purify, to prepare for divine service, and for partaking of holy 
things (Exod. xix. 10). 

18.] As thou hast sent me into the world. — How beautiful ! 
Christ was sent into this world by spirit birth of woman's seed 
(Gen. iii. 15), to bruise the devil death serpent head of all evil 
on the earth, for which purpose he assumed the human body (Heb. 
ii. 14). All spirit born of woman's seed body soul mind egg 
germs of spirit new creature life are sent when called to preach 
with a spirit message of Scripture truths from God. 

19.] For their sokes. — I consecrate my blood life a holy spirit 

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470 JOHN XVII. 

lamb, begotten by the Lord God's word creation life power (Gen. 
iii. 15) of woman's seed, a holy redemption sacrifice to open a door 
from earth to heaven's spirit life immortal light love seed for spirit 
born soul minds that bear my spirit love life immortal password 
of truth, gift of the sanctifying Holy Ghost for them, which may 
regenerate them in new holiness purity, true and permanent new- 
ness of immortal life. 

20.] Neither pray I for these alone. — Apostles, or those who 
were then disciples. But for all such as through faith receive and 
believe my gospel Scripture words of truth and life immortal love 
light spirit born holy, permanent newness of life spiritual from 
their soul minds being thereby spirit begotten of "God (John iii. 
5 ; 1 John iii. 9 ; v. 18). 

21.] One. — 1 John iv. 16 : God is love ; and he that dwelleth in 
love dwelleth in God, and God in him. 

22.] The glory. — Spirit birth new creature pulsating immortal 
spirit love life from God. 1 John iii. 9 ; iv. 16 : God is love, 
and they that pulsate love life immortal in Christ are new spirit 
life immortals (2 Cor. v. 17). How different from the oneness 
to-day ! The spirit Babel of men creeds and sects of various names, 
and their self delusions have left them to themselves, when void 
of spirit love they know not God. 1 John iv. 8 : He that loveth 
not knoweth not God ; for God is love. 7 : Every one that loveth 
is born of God, and knoweth God. If spirit born holy will obey 
God, they will throw away all their gnat dissensions and men 
creeds, and adopt the Bible as their only confession of faith, and 
become one in love to each other, and see eye to eye, as one army 
of light warring upon darkness. 

23.] Loved them, as thou hast loved me. — 1 John iv. 16 : God is 
love, and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in 
him. Matt. xxii. 37 : Jesus said unto them, Thou shalt love the 
Lord thy God with all thy heart (blood life will), and with all thy 
soul, and with all thy mind. Soul and mind, seat of spirit life 
immortal spirit birth. 39 : Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy- 
self, — Presbyterian, Methodist, Episcopal, Baptist, or any in or out 
of any church that love truthfully, and are spirit born holy, keep- 
ing the Scripture commands of God, especially Christ's last eleventh 
commandment, — love one another. 40 : On these two command- 
ments hang all the law and the prophets. Thus love is the essential 
spirit blood life immortal new creature life in Christ (2 Cor. v. 
17 ; Gal. vi. 7, 8, 15). 



JOHN XVIII. 471 

24.] With me taker e I am. — In heaven's spirit life light love 
eternal in their soul mind's new creature spirit born love pulsating 
holy spirit bodies glorified like mine with immortal love life, for 
the cleansing of their spirits from blood life filthiness of the flesh 
that thou hast sentenced to death. I give my spirit begotten of 
woman's seed by thy spirit word power blood life holy. Lev. xvii. 
11 : For it is the blood that maketh atonement for the soul (not 
body). 

25.] Not known. — By spirit birth (Matt. xiii. 37, 38 ; John 
iii. 5 ; 2 Cor. v. 17 ; GUI. vi. 51) so as to love and obey God's 
Scripture truths. These. — Have known that thou hast sent me, 
and on the day of pentecost by experimental spirit birth, and ocular 
Holy Ghost baptism truth demonstration. 

26.] Declared unto them thy name. — 1 John iv. 16 : God is 
love : made thee known to them. Will declare it. — That thou art 
love. John iii. 16 : God so loved the world that he gave his only 
begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, 
but have everlasting life. 



Chapter XVIII. 

1.] These words. — These words in the preceding chapter, 
which wonderful prayer he had just offered, full of infinite holiness 
love to his spirit Father and to his disciples, and looking down the 
centuries to the close of time's point between eternity past and 
eternity to follow time's close, he exclaims, Neither pray I for 
these alone, but for them also who shall believe on me through 
their word. Glorious prayer of love that even reached through 
some near nineteen centuries down through the dark ages of popish 
Rome's inquisition ; tortures of Christians, and fires and fagots 
death, still on through all obstructions of Jewish and Gentile men 
creed tortures of God's children, until its infinite mercy love reached 
even unworthy me, a dust atom animate with life, and my soul 
mind was impregnated with his prayer spirit love glory to the 
Saviour, and to the infinite love his Father bore in pity for our 
helpless race, that madly obeyed the devil for imaginary gain, and 
lost their real friend and benefactor. John iii. 16: For God so 
loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son (0 love in- 



472 JOHN XVIII. 

finite, I love thee) that whosoever believeth in him should not 
perish (all others perish in death), but have everlasting life. 
Religion is a business of vital concern to all mortals on earth. 
Cedron or Kidron, a small stream, which ran through the Valley 
of Jehoshaphat, on the east side of Jerusalem, between the city and 
the Mount of Olives (2 Sam. xv. 23 ; 1 Kings xv. 13). 

2.] Knew the place. — And that was the reason why Jesus went 
thither ; for knowing the appointed sacrificial hour drew near, he 
willingly gave his body blood life holy to open a spirit life narrow 
way for soul mind birth door, and fulfill his Father's infinite love 
word (Gen. iii. 15 ; Heb. ii. 14). 

3.] A band. — A company of the Roman soldiers on garrison 
duty. 

6.] I am lie. — They went backward and fell to the ground, and 
there would have remained dead if the Lord had willed it thus ; 
and to show them their helplessness before him, in an instant 
he could have destroyed in death all his accusers; but that 
was not the purpose of Christ's mission on earth ; they were com- 
pletely in his power ; he could have left, had he chosen to do so, 
or have summoned legions of angels of power to his rescue. 

7.] Jems of Nazareth. — The hardness of their vile hearts was 
here displayed in their impudence as murderers of the innocent ; 
villains always attempt to lower the standing of those they assail, 
malign, or plunder. Thieves and murderers are always liars. 

8.] Let these go their way. — A command that they obeyed, and 
left his disciples unmolested. 

11.] The cwp. — The suffering of the woman's seed blood life 
body, which my Father spirit God hath appointed me, shall I not 
endure them? John iii. 16 : For God so loved the world that he 
gave his only (spirit) begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in 
him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 

15.] Another disciple. — Supposed to be John, the writer of this 
gospel. 

28.] Hall of judgment. — The place where Pilate, the Roman 
governor, held his court. Lest they should be defiled. — Their 
tradition men creed thus taught, not Scripture. They would not 
enter this apartment of a Gentile, lest they should be unfitted to 
partake of the passover ; so careful were they about contracting 
ceremonial pollution (close communion), while they were seeking 
to commit the most horrible crime : murder of the holy innocent, 
pure, spotless, perfect, sinless, crimeless, Lamb of God, to retain 



JOHN XV III. 473 

their men creed mode of mock worship forms and spiritless cere- 
monies. 

31.] Not lawful. — The power to put one to death had been 
taken away from the Jews by the Roman government, and this 
was the reason why they sought to have Pilate condemn him. 

32.] Saying of Jesus. — Matt. xx. 19 : And shall deliver him 
to the Gentiles, to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him ; and 
the third day he shall rise again. Crucifixion was the horrid 
devil Nero, popish inquisition, devil invention of hell torture, a 
Roman punishment, while the Jewish punishment for the crime 
of which they accused him was that of stoning (Lev. xxiv. 11- 
16). By taking Jesus to the Roman governor they fulfilled 
Christ's prophecy of himself, concerning the manner of the Lord's 
sacrifice. 

33.] Art thou the king of the Jews? — The Jewish priests had 
falsely accused Jesus of claiming as seed of David to be the legiti- 
mate king of the Jews, which they supposed would excite the 
anger of the Roman governor as being treason against his king 
Caesar of Rome (Luke xxiii. 2 ; John xix. 12). 

34.] Of thyself — Have you observed anything treasonable in 
me, or do you ask the question because others falsely told you 
such was the fact ? 

36.] My hingdom is not of this world. — Christ affirms the 
truth that he was a spiritual king, and wholly thereby discards all 
desires or designs upon the throne of David, king of the mortal 
blood life Jews. But a spiritual king of saints spirit born holy 
new creatures, in spirit life immortal love light bodies that never 
grow old and decrepit, where no rival kings, or wars, or death 
ever enters. But now is my kingdom from hence, not an earthly 
nature life kingdom. 

37.] Art thou a king then ? — Of any sort. Thou sayest. — This 
was equivalent to saying, I am a spiritual king of saints spirit born 
holy. To this end I was born (of the woman's seed : Gen. iii. 15. 
Begotten by the word spirit life eternal of the spirit Son, of the 
self-existent and only source of immortal spirit love life). He 
then proceeded to show briefly what kind of a king he was, one 
who came into the world to make known the truths of spirit life 
immortal. Pilate saw that his claims were no crime against the 
Roman government. 

38.] I find in him no fault. — This the Holy Ghost caused to 
be written on an imperishable record, that it mi^ht stand an eter- 

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474 JOHN XIX. 

nal monument of the falsehoods of the Jews, and the perfect inno- 
cence of Jesus Christ. And the utter overthrow of the Jewish 
nation is to us a proof of the Scripture truth. Isa. xlix. 26 ; 22 : 
Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will lift up my hand to the 
Gentiles. 

40.] Not this man, bat Barabbas. — Pilate gave them the 
choice to free Christ Jesus, whom they had wilfully and falsely 
accused, or Barabbas, a horrid murderer and robber ; yet they 
preferred a murderer to the Son of God, the Redeemer and Saviour 
of all spirit born holy. And whosoever wills to do so may to-day 
partake of the spirit love life river of water freely, without money 
and without price, who seek of God, through the spirit vine 
mediator Christ Jesus, spirit life immortal soul birth. 



Chapter XIX. 



7.] By our law he ought to die. — Lev. xxiv. 16: He made 
himself the son of God. I am a living witness that the Lord 
Jesus Christ's Father, the Lord God, and his father, the only self- 
existent life immortal being, and source of all life germs, and 
their offspring expansive life beings in the universe, through whose 
life rays light impartations I and all on earth live, and move, and 
have a being. And in Christ Jesus' name I asked for spirit birth 
new creature life of God, and his light heaven's sun rays of spirit 
love peace joy shone above the brightness of the sun, plain in view 
of my spirit soul mind intellect memory vision, and new creature 
life being was developed in my soul mind spirit. Being full of 
love to God, and all that loved him, and a missionary spirit full of 
salvation's love for all Adam's race, desiring that they all might 
repent of their sins and come to God through Christ, the door 
through which God's love light shone, I saw, and each for them- 
selves know and taste the sweets of redeeming grace love of God 
through his spirit vine Christ Jesus. Whom also I have seen in 
beatific glorified spirit body clothed in heaven's white robe of 
righteousness, and he commissioned me to bear his spirit truth to 
the churches of earth who are blinded by creature Adamic blood 
life resurrections false, and immortality of the wicked, also utterly 
false and unscriptural, they have no resurrector (Luke xx. 35-38). 



JOHN XIX. 475 

They are not accounted worthy of a resurrection, nor is there in 
the incorrigible wicked dead any thing of life to raise. 

8.] He was the more afraid. — This was to Pilate a new charge. 
He saw the Jews were determined to kill him though innocent, 
and as he claimed to be the Son of God he was therefore more 
anxious to release him. His wife also had sent to him to have 
nothing to do with that just man. 

9.] Whence art thou? — What is thy origin, human or divine? 
No answer ; Jesus had already given all needful information about 
himself, and he did not think proper to add to it. 

10.] ./ have power. — Pilate proudly boasts of his power, not 
thinking it was limited. 

11.] Thou couldst. — Thou hast thy office and power by God's 
permission. Rom. xiii. 1. There is no power but of God. 

12.] Not Csesars friend. — Tiberius Caesar, then emperor of 
Rome, fearing they would thus accuse him to the cruel Caesar, 
and cause his loss of office or life also; he murdered Jesus. 

13.] Pavement. — Gabbatha, an elevated place, paved with 
costly stones. 

14.] Behold your king. — Pilate spake this in mockery, and by 
it gives the Jewish priests and people, who falsely accused Jesus 
of aspirations for David's temporal earthly throne, a severe rebuke. 

15.] Crucify him. — No doubt many who had previously shouted 
hosanna when Jesus rode into Jerusalem as a triumphant leader 
fulfilling prophecy thereby, then shouted with the majority men 
creed, political priestcraft, carnal worshipers of forms and ceremo- 
nial ordinances, straining as to-day at a gnat baptism, and swallow- 
ing a camel-load of filthy false self-righteousness darkness, void of 
one ray of love to their neighbor church-member, who was 
sprinkled like Moses and the children of Israel, while they, like 
Pharaoh, are wholly immersed in selfish darkness, as was the Jews 
when their cry was, his blood be on us and on our children (Matt. 
xxvii. 25). Water is not a vital saving ordinance, blood is. Levit. 
xvii. 11 : It is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul. 

22.] / have written. — I will alter nothing : words of contempt 
for his murderers. 

24.] Cast lots. — Ps. xxii. 18 : They parted my garments among 
them, and cast lots upon my vesture. Those wicked Roman 
soldiers fulfilled unknown to them what David had foretold as a 
prophet of God. 

26.] Woman. — Gen. iii. 13 ; And the Lord God said unto the 



476 JOHN XIX. 

woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman 
(Eve) said, The serpent beguiled, deceived me by his devil death 
spirit liar within him. 14 : And the Lord God said unto the 
serpent, 15:1 will put enmity between thee and the woman ; her 
seed shall bruise thy head. Thus the same appellation is given 
by the Lord Jesus Christ to his blood life flesh body woman's seed 
of Eve, the first mother of the human race of mortals nature earth 
life's carnal products of Adam's sin lust quickening seed that his 
Lord God Father called Eve in Eden, woman. And Abraham gave 
the same appellation to Isaac, his son's wife. Gen. xxiv. 8 : If 
the woman will not be willing to follow thee, then thou shalt be 
clear of this my oath. John ii. 4 : Jesus saith unto her, Woman, 
what have I do with thee ? mine hour is not yet come. Then he 
saith to the disciple (John, the writer of this most likely), Behold, 
thy mother ! (not the mother of God, as Roman Catholics blas- 
phemously teach). And from that hour that disciple took her 
unto his own home. Matt. xii. 47 : Then one said unto Jesus, 
Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to 
speak with thee. 48 : But Jesus answered and said unto him 
that told him, Who is my mother ? and who are my brethren (49, 
50)? Mother of Jesus blood life; not Spirit life. 1 John 
v. 18. 

28.] Scripture. — Ps. lxix. 21 : They gave me also gall for my 
meat ; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. 

30.] It is finished. — Or fulfilled by this sacrificial blood life 
offering for souls that should or by faith had been spirit born. 
Levit. xvii. 11 : For it is the blood that maketh an atonement for 
the soul. By this offering of Christ, man's salvation is completed 
as far as can be on God's part ; the will of the blood life hearts 
of mortals consenting the soul mind will becomes impregnated with 
spirit truths of God, and by faith they become, by way of spirit 
birth of Christ's spirit love seed of God's promise word immortal 
spirit, new creature beings in Christ (2 Cor. v. 17). All ceremo- 
nies of the Mosaic law ended with the fulfillment of faith's sacri- 
fices. It is finished ; the last sacrifice. The Jews are a living 
proof of the fact; no more do they offer sacrifice. Gave vp the 
ghost. — Which spirit of Christ went at once triumphantly with the 
angel hosts of heaven escort to paradise with the soul of the peni- 
tent thief, in the glory throng of love safely born to heaven. Then 
the third day morning the angel's escort returned with the Lord ; 
he removed from death's prison earth the spirit begotten body to 



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speak through to the apostles, and ascend with spirit life power, 
as emblematic of the angelic escort, that in a similar manner angels 
would escort safely to heaven all spirit born souls new spirit born 
creatures in Christ Jesus' love spirit life (Luke xx. 35-38), at 
their blood life death of the body, there is no possible atonement 
for the mortal body of Adam or any of his lust sin seed race. 
Ps. li. 5 : Behold I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my 
mother conceive me. Rom. viii. 6 : For to be carnally minded is 
death ; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Spiritually 
minded. — The mind is located in the forehead where the reflective 
thoughts are born ; the blood life body could not live a moment 
in heaven's atmosphere. 

31.] High day. — Because the feast of the passover fell upon that 
day. Besought. — The Roman magistrate for permission to break 
their limbs to hasten their death and removal before the Sabbath. 

34.] Pierced. — Ps. xxii. 16 : They pierced my hands and my 
feet. 18 : They parted my garments among them, and cast lots 
upon my vesture. Zech. xii. 10 : And they shall look upon me 
whom they have pierced. 



Chapter XX. 



9.] Knew not the Scripture. — Like most preachers and people 
on earth to-day with the hundreds of thousands of unread and 
searched for truth Bibles on earth ; novels, political papers, and 
worthless magazines, full of falsehood, with enough truth to give 
a tinge coloring mortals diligently read ; and the only book of truth 
revelations of Grod's conditional pardon and grace salvation of soul 
minds spirit born holy beyond the grave they read to settle them- 
selves in ease as to their creed belief, instead of searching the Scrip- 
tures to learn what the Lord Glod says with prayer to God for 
wisdom and light to comprehend their teachings. James i. 5. 

14.] And knew not. — Dazzled by divive light, or Luke xxiv. 
16 : Their eyes were kept from discovering who he was at once. 

16.] Saith unto her. — And restored thereby her sight knowl- 
edge. 

17.] I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my 
God and your God. — Luke xxiii. 43 : Jesus said, To-day shalt 



478 JOHN XX. 

thou be with me in paradise. His spirit was like his Father's, the 
spirit word creation power Lord God, being the only spirit be- 
gotten of woman's seed by God's word power in the universe ; 
mortals in flesh blood life bodies know but little of spirit power 
gradation : spirit love all flows from God the father of spirits 
(Heb. xii.' 9). 

19.] The same day at evening. — The first day of the week, 
which was from that time, and has ever since been observed as the 
Lord's day, the Christian sabbath. The new creature spirit born 
gospel grace resurrection spirit sabbath day. The ceremonial 
emblem sabbath day was closed forever, as was all sacrifice, of 
which the circumcision emblem Jews are a living proof; for they 
no more obey their law of sacrifice, which was as binding as the 
Sabbath law. The new gospel spirit soul mind birth dispensation 
is opened to the whole world with the spirit Lord's memorial 
sabbath first resurrection triumph over him that ruled earth with 
death power (Heb. ii. 14 ; Acts xx. 7 ; 1 Cor. xvi. 2 ; Rev. i. 10). 
I was in the spirit on the Lord's day. 

20.] Showed unto them his hands. — To convince them that he 
was certainly, risen from the dead, his spirit rose when the blood 
life died, but Christ's body spirit begotten spirit life took from the 
tomb. 

21.] Send I you. — Thus the Lord now sends all whom he com- 
missions to preach his gospel truths as my spirit Father hath sent 
me, even so send I you, who, like me, are spirit born holy to preach 
my gospel spirit life truths as I proclaimed my Father's spirit com- 
mands to proclaim the gospel, not men tradition false creeds of 
men's myth imaginations that cleave to the flesh body blood life 
resurrection, which cannot possibly be ; for they are all sentenced 
to death, Gen. iii. 19. And I died in flesh blood life body not to 
redeem dead bodies of nature products that decay and see corrup- 
tion, but my blood made only atonement for the souls of all who 
believe, and thereby receive spirit birth of my spirit love of my 
Father's spirit word truth seed (Matt, xiii. 37, 38 ; John iii. 5 ; 
vi. 63 ; xi. 25, 26 ; xv. 5 ; Rom. viii. 9 ; 2 Cor. v. 17 ; Gal. vi. 
15). Lev. xvii. 11 : For it is the blood that maketh an atone- 
ment for the soul, not the body sentenced to death corruption. 
Christ's spirit begotten body did not see corruption. 

22.] He breathed on them. — The same as the Lord God, his 
spirit Father, Gen. ii. 7 : And the Lord God formed man of the 
dust of the ground, that was and is man (Gen. iii. 19 ; Eccles. xii. 



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7). And breathed into his nostrils the breath of lives : Plural 
in the original Hebrew, that he might like wheat seed increase in 
numbers, as all animate lite male seed, as well as mortal male seed 
does to-day. Job xii. 10 : In whose hand is the soul of every 
living thing. And man became a living soul. And saith unto 
them (his apostles and disciples), Receive ye the Holy Ghost. — 
Thus the Holy Ghost baptism was imparted to the spirit-born 
children of God, which is imparted to each child of God when 
spirit born, and sanctified, and made holy. Spirit baptism is the 
only essential baptism of vital immortal life importance (Matt. iii. 
11-12). Luke xxiii. 43: And Jesus said unto the repentant, 
believing thief on the cross, Verily I say unto thee, to-day shalt 
thou be with me in paradise, thereby baptizing him with the holy 
breath spirit word life baptism of the Holy Ghost : no water was 
used which was only an emblem of the spirit baptism (John vi. 63). 

23.] Remit — retained. — In accordance with his proclaimed 
conditions and Scripture laws regarding forgiveness and non- 
forgiveness, conditions of his spirit word proclamation of God's 
grace, and the same power and authority are here conferred 
equally upon all the apostles, and not on Peter alone, and no one 
is in any respect raised above another. The power conferred was 
under the teachings of the Holy Ghost, Christ Jesus, now as 
then guiding all spirit-born holy children of God in the way of 
truth, to declare the way in which men can be pardoned, sancti- 
fied, made holy, and saved in new creature spirit-born beings holy 
(2 Cor. v. 17). 

25. J Print of the nails. — Spikes driven through the hands and 
feet of the holy blessed Redeemer for a sacrificial spirit begotten 
opening door to heaven's spirit life by way of soul mind. New 
spirit creature life immortal, of which emblems like water bap- 
tism had been offered in faith for some four thousand years. Lev. 
xvii. 11 : For it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the 
soul. As if Thomas had said, you are deceived, having only seen a 
shadow, or appearance of a body, not a true one, but a myth, 
imaginary one. 

27.] Reach hither thy finger. — This shows that Jesus knew 
what Thomas had said. Reach hither thy hand and thrust it into 
my side. — Clearly showing no blood- life was there, and that the 
body was not a body desirable to occupy (Luke xxiv. 39). A spirit 
hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have in heaven's spirit 
clime. John iv. 24 : God is a Spirit, vi. 63 : The flesh profiteth 



480 JOHN XX. 

nothing. Rom. viii. 9 ; 1 Cor. xv. 50 : Flesh and blood cannot 
inherit the kingdom of God. No life-blood was in Christ's resur- 
rected body. It was spirit life alone that came from God his 
Father, and like begets its like, and was void of the Virgin 
Mary's blood life woman's seed (Gen. iii. 15), which was used to 
accomplish (Heb. ii. 14). To destroy the devil death ; which was 
then accomplished as far as related to any spirit begotten of the 
soul mind, the new spirit creature (2 Cor. v. 17 ; Gal. vi. 7, 8, 15). 

28.] My Lord and my God. — This was addressed to Jesus 
Christ, and was commended by him, as a just expression of true 
faith. 

29.] Blessed are they. — They who like Thomas have believed 
in Christ, and though they have not seen him (as I have), as 
their Lord and their God. 

30.] Signs. — Miracles in proof of his divinity, and his resur- 
rection from the dead : oaks never become acorns again : onward is 
God's spirit law also ; the worm body dead has no life resurrec- 
tion of corruption's rottenness death. 

31.] Ye might believe. — Exercise living faith in Christ, and 
through this faith be justified, sanctified, and saved. Hisname. — 
By his atonement, which is all the merits that any of Adam's 
rebel sin lust begotten race can plead, and the only value we 
possess before the only immortal self-existent Father of spirits 
(Heb. xii. 9), who begets us who are spirit born holy by his love 
life immortal spirit word, which is a spirit born new spirit being 
by way of Christ Jesus of the soul mind : a new creature spirit 
being as Adam when created was a new dust nature product of 
the highest order of earthy nature products animate with life, which 
returns like all nature earthy life, animate and inanimate, back to 
nature elements at its death. But the soul breath of the Lord 
God intellect mind, like the females of animate nature life eggs, 
is the female spirit egg of the soul. Ps. xxxiv. 2 : My soul shall 
make her boast in the Lord : the Lord sows his spirit love gospel 
word seeds in the soul, and therefore the soul may well boast in 
the Lord, when the spirit egg mind is by the Lord's seed impreg- 
nated (Matt. xiii. 37, 38), and spirit born (John iii. 5). A new 
creature (2 Cor. v. 17 ; Gal. vi. 7, 8, 15). 



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Chapter XXI. 

1.] Sea of Tiberias. — The same as the sea of Galilee, and the 
Lake of Gennesaret (Matt, xxviii. 16). Where the apostles had 
gone from Jerusalem. Then they returned to Jerusalem. Luke 
xxiv. 50 : And Jesus led them out as far as to Bethany, and he 
lifted up his hands and blessed them. 51 : And it came to pass, 
while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up 
into heaven. 

3.] A fishing. — According to his first trade (perhaps necessi- 
tated to do so for food, which he had not quite given up, to 
employ himself wholly in the ministry, as he did after pentecost. 

14.] The third time. — The third time he appeared to the 
apostles when together. 

15.] Lovest thou me. — Loving God supremely over all others 
was the duty of the apostles, and of all Adam's race. Food, raiment, 
rains, earth's pleasant atmosphere to breathe, light life, and the 
sustaining of the earth in its annual evolutions, and restraining 
the internal liquid fires of the earth to the close of time, and every 
blessing mortals and immortals receive, all are the free gifts of 
God, and God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten 
Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish (be anni- 
hilated as to life in any form), but have everlasting life. 

18.] Stretch forth thy hands. — In the agonies of martyrdom 
death. 

22.] Follow thou me. — That is the order of the commander-in- 
chief of earth's spirit born holy army of love light. Amen. Face 
front, advance, advance, never look back for loaves and fishes. 

24.] This is the disciple. — John, the writer of this gospel of 
truth. 

25.] The world. — A hyperbolical speech, to show not only the 
number, but also the immensity of the understanding, and the 
benefit of Christ's works ; or as Lord God Creator of all suns and 
systems of worlds, and things therein innumerable ; and parch- 
ment writings were large and cumbrous ; printing art was then 
unknown, and paper, steam, and telegraphings, and thousands of 
other useful improvements now known upon the earth. Dan. 
xii. 4 : Even to the time of the end. Many shall run to and 
fro ; railroads, steamboats, and knowledge shall be increased, art 
of printing, power press, telegraph, etc. 
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Electricity, that acts on dead body, brain and nerves, is 
insanely considered by body resurrectors to be the soul mind that 
actuates the mortal's living muscles, nerves, and brain. Electricity 
never thinks or lives ; it is merely great in expansive power. 

The Pictorial History of England, 6th vol., gives the history 
of the Church of England. Pkge 352. Henry VIII., King of 
England, aspires to rule the Pope of Rome. 

Page 354. Clement signed a dispensation granting that Cardinal 
Wolsey, or any other cardinal delegate, might grant Henry VIII. a 
divorce from Catherine, but he was scrupulous as to granting the 
decretal bull ; Mary, Catherine's daughter, was to be legitimatized. 
Wolsey did not like Anne Boleyn. Clement issues a bull, and 
appoints Cardinal Campeggio, a Latin cardinal, to act with Wolsey, 
the bull to be kept secret. Anne Boleyn was taken sick ; Henry 
frightened at the pestilence, Anne was sent to her father's, Lord 
Rochford. 

Page 358. Wolsey's property taken by Henry VIII. : half a 
million crowns, and chancellor's seal, and other jewels, etc. 

Page 362. In March, 1529, Pope Clement published a breve, 
forbidding Henry VIII., King of England, to contract a marriage 
under pain of excommunication from the Roman Catholic Church. 

Page 363. Cromwell advised Henry VIII. to deny the authority 
of the Pope of Rome, and virtually to become the pope-head of 
the Church of England, then known as the Romish Church ; that 
by the present division of the spiritual and temporal, Henry VIII. 
was only half a king ; and that the bishops and clergy ought to be 
made wholly dependent on the crown, and to absolve themselves 
wholly from the Pope of Rome. Henry VIII. aspires to be the 
pope-head of the Church of England. Cromwell was at once sworn 
of his privy council, and the cardinals, bishops, and clergy of Eng- 
land were involved by the advice of Cromwell in a charge of pre- 
munire, or accused as factors and abettors of Wolsey in having, 
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under the pope's bull, acknowledged his authority as legate cardinal. 
Cromwell hinted to the clergy (who were greatly alarmed, and as- 
sembled in convocation), that the royal wrath might be assuaged 
by a round sum of money. They offered one hundred thousand 
pounds. Henry refused to accept it or give pardon unless in the 
preamble to their grant they formally acknowledged him to be 
the protector and only supreme head of the Church and clergy of 
England. They took three days to consider the proposition, and 
by a majority they agreed to make Henry VIII., King of England, 
their supreme head (or pope), with the limitation, quantum per 
legem Christi liceat (as far as may be by the law of Christ). 

Page 364. Thomas Bilney, a learned and amiable man, was 
burned by order of Henry VIII., at Smithfield, as a heretic, for 
having attempted to expose the errors of popery. 

This was the beginning of the atrocious system pursued during 
the rest of the reign of Henry VIII., in which Catholic clergy were 
plundered and hanged on the one side, and the professors of the 
reformed religion were burned on the other, in pretty equal pro- 
portions ; the Protestant fires being made to blaze with great fury, 
whenever any terrible blow was struck by Henry at the estab- 
lished church. Under the guidance of Cromwell, parliament 
passed an act for the abolition of annates, or first fruits paid 
yearly to the Pope of Rome ; and at the same time abrogated the 
authority of the clergy in convocation, and and annexed the au- 
thority to the crown. On the 15th November, 1533, Pope 
Clement signed a breve, declaring both Henry VIII., King of 
England, and Anne Boleyn excommunicated, unless they separated. 
January 25, 1533, they were married. 

Page 366. Henry VIII., letter to Archbishop Cranmer. We 
your king and sovereign do recognize no superior on earth. 

Page 367. June 1, 1533, only four days after Archbishop 
Cranmer had divorced Catherine, Anne Boleyn was crowned 
Queen of England, Cranmer officiating. July 11, 1533, Friars 
Peto and Elstown preached against the king, and were, with all 
the friars, soon after banished from England. D. D. Curwen, 
who flattered the murderer king, Henry made a bishop of his 
Church of England ; and the bishops gave it the name of Epis- 
copal Church. 

Page 369. 1534 : Soon after the holy days of Christmas, Par- 
liament met for the discharge of very important business of 
various kinds, and before it rose (on the 30th of March, 1534) it 



484 DAY THOUGHTS. 

wholly severed the ties which for many centuries had united Eng- 
land and Rome. Acting on the impulse already received, the 
parliament prohibited every kind of payment and every kind of 
appeal to the Pope of Rome, and confirmed Henry VIII., King 
of England, as the supreme head of the English Church, or Epis- 
copal Church ; and vested in the king alone the right to appoint 
all bishops, and to decide all ecclesiastical causes. The royal 
assent which abolished the papal power in England was signed 
March 30, 1534. Henry found his new quality of supreme head 
of the church burdensome, and made Cromwell his Royal Vice- 
gerent Vicar-General and chief commissary, with all the spiritual 
authority belonging to the king. Thus a layman, Cromwell, became 
superior to the Archbishop of Canterbury. And now, 1873, Epis- 
copal bishops, who are but a continued succession of the Church 
of Rome and its inquisition hell-fire tortures for one thousand 
two hundred and sixty years, claim apostolic succession. The 
Catholic Pope of Rome, to whom these cardinals and bishops and 
priests of the Church of England had previously sworn allegiance 
(before their pledged allegiance to Henry VIII., King of Eng- 
land as their supreme (pope) head), was of the succession of popes 
made by the cardinals after their first pope, who was made by the 
decree of Justinian, in a.d. 533, the Bishop of Rome was de- 
clared the first of the priesthood, " and the head of all the holy 
churches." But these provisions of the Justinian code could 
not go into effect in favor of the Bishop of Rome at the time they 
were issued, because Rome was in the possession of the Ostrogoths, 
who were Arians, and violently opposed to the Catholic faith. 
It was not till the conquest of Rome, in 538, that the Catholic 
bishop could exercise the power with which he had been clothed 
by Justinian. The army of Justinian, under Belisarius, who had 
conquered the Vandals, put an end to the empire and dominion 
of the Goths at Rome. Belisarius entered Rome December 10, 
536. The Goths commenced the siege of Rome, March 537 ; 
and in one year and nine months the Goths raised the siege, burnt 
their tents, and tumultuously repassed the Milvian bridge. — Gib- 
bons Decline and Fall, chap. 41, page 143. 

Rev. xiii. 18. 666. The Latin tongue. 16. Mark (with their 
finger and holy water) on their foreheads (the cross) : we see 
now the Pope of Rome's words of infallibility and death knell 
of the papacy has sounded in the taking of Rome by the King 
of Italy, September 21, 1870. And the oath of allegiance 



DAY THOUGHTS. 485 

to the King of Prussia by the archbishop, October, 1873. And 
the King of Austria affiliates at the same date with Victor Im- 
manuel, king of Italy, fully described in the near future. Dan. 
vii. 11 and Rev. xxii. 17 give the closing spiritual gospel truth 
free from all popes or earth officials. Christ is the only high-priest 
and rock of salvation. And the Spirit and the bride say, Come ; 
and let him that heareth say Come ; and let him that is athirst 
come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely. 
Heavenly wisdom is not learned at earth's schools or colleges : 
Christ is the only master-teacher of spirit life immortal truths 
(Matt, xxiii. 10). Spirit birth life immortal seed, spirit love of 
the Father of spirits (Heb. xii. 9), is sown by God's bosom love 
Son, the Holy Ghost, in the only spirit begotten Son's blood life 
body of woman's seed egg of Adamic mortal nature, Jesus Christ's 
blood life Son of man, who sows the spirit life immortal seed in the 
her soul spirit intellect mind egg (Matt. xiii. 37, 38), which is 
spirit love life immortal seed of the spirit God (John iv. 24), 
who only hath immortality (1 Tim. vi. 16). For thy maker is 
thy husband, Isa. liv. 5. My soul shall make her boast in the 
Lord : the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad (Ps. xxxiv. 2). 
Begotten of God and born of God (1 John v. 18). iii. 9 : Who- 
soever is born of God doth not commit sin ; for his seed remaineth 
in him, and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. 10 : In 
this the children of God are manifest, not children or descendants 
of Adam and Eve, who, with all their blood life probation sin 
lust seed, are sentenced to death (Gen. ii. 17; iii. 19, 22, 24). 
Ps. Ii. 5 : Behold I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my 
mother conceive me. Ezek. xviii. 4 : The soul that sinneth it 
shall die. Job xii. 9,10: In the Lord's hand is the soul of every 
living thing and the breath of all mankind. John iii. 3 : Except 
a man be born again; he cannot see the kingdom of God. 5 : 
Except a man be born of the spirit, he cannot enter into the 
kingdom of God. 6 : That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and 
that which is born of the spirit is spirit, iv. 24 : God is a spirit. 
Rom. viii. 8 : So then they that are in the flesh cannot please 
God. 9. But ye (spirit born) are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, 
if so be the spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have 
not the spirit of Christ, he is none of his. 1 Cor. xv. 23 : Christ 
the first-fruits (of spirit life resurrection) ; afterwards they that 
are Christ's. 2 Cor. v. 1 7 : If any man be in Christ, he is a new 
creature. Eph. ii. 1 : And you hath Christ quickened, who 

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were dead in trespasses and sins. John xi. 25, 26 : Jesus said 
unto her, I am the resurrection and the life. (Adam's breath or 
soul, or sin lust seed blood life, has nothing whatever in the spirit 
born of God through Christ the spirit vine life, John xv. 5. The 
soul does not belong to Adam, Ezek. xviii. 4.) He that believeth in 
me, though he were (spiritually) dead, yet shall he live ; and who- 
soever liveth (is spirit born of God) and believeth in me shall never 
die. This is the first resurrection ; if they never die, they were 
dead, or as the animate nature life base germ eggs in the females 
of each species on earth, which eggs, like the female or her soul 
mind spirit intellect egg unquickened (Eph. ii. 1), is utterly void 
of any life, which any farmer can readily test by shutting a hen 
alone, she will lay eggs, but she cannot from such eggs hatch any 
chickens ; thus soul's mind intellect belief spirit eggs, unquickened 
by God's spirit life immortal love seed sown by the Saviour, will 
produce nothing of life immortal. Gal. v. 6 : For in Jesus Christ 
neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision ; but 
faith which worketh by love. vi. 7; viii. 15 : Be not deceived; 
God is not mocked (as a resurrector of rotten bodies, or a torturer 
of them in endless fires, or as burning himself in Adam's breath : 
such mockery of God is blasphemy, and came from Egyptian 
priests, who embalmed the Egyptian mummies) ; for whatsoever 
a man soweth, that shall he also reap ; for he that soweth to his 
flesh (blood life sin lusts and appetites), shall of the flesh reap 
corruption : but he that soweth to the spirit shall of the spirit 
reap life everlasting; for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision 
availeth anything, nor uncircumcision ; but a new creature with 
new life ; Christ is the life of all he resurrects or quickens to life. 
Nothing of Adam's life whatever is in the new resurrected to im- 
mortal life spirit child of God, who is love ; and he that dwelleth 
in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. The incorrigible 
wicked, that sow to the flesh blood life desires, reap corruption ; a 
rotten body, and sin death soul is all their store. Isa. v. 24 : 
Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame con- 
sumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their 
blossom shall go up as dust ; because they have cast away the law 
of the Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of 
Israel. The second resurrection of the spirit born new creature 
in Christ from the dead blood life body at its death is fully stated, 
Luke xx. 35-38. As children of God, not Adam's seed nor Satan's, 
Christ is the life of all he resurrects. Ps. xc. 10 : We fly away. 



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